Hypocrisy Over Iran Becomes Total Car crash
Netanyahu urges international community to ‘stand united’ against Iran
The Israeli prime minister says Iran threatens world peace and the international community must resist it together.
“The international community must continue to stand united in resisting this Iranian aggression, which threatens world peace,” he said in a statement released by his office on X.
Netanyahu also said US House of Representatives Majority Leader Steve Scalise called him on Monday evening to express support “for any decision that Israel makes in light of the Iranian attack” and to inform the prime minister of “his initiative to advance in Congress, in the coming days, a series of measures against Iran and for Israel”.
Israel’s military, political leadership determined to respond to Iran’s attack
The military leadership and the political leadership in Israel say that the scale of Iran’s attack on Israel needs and warrants a response. As we’ve been reporting, it’s the if and when, but I think it is going to happen.
You have the Israeli Defence Minister Gallant tell his US counterpart that Iran’s attack using ballistic missiles could not go without a response. This is despite the fact that there’s a lot of international pressure on Israel not to escalate.
This is an unprecedented and extremely fissile situation regarding the potential for a regional war or a wider war.
We did understand in Israeli media leaks from that second war cabinet meeting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tasked the army with coming up with potential targets inside Iran [which] could send a message but… avoid civilian casualties.
You have US President Joe Biden in a phone call to Netanyahu over the weekend saying the fact that more than 99 percent of the missiles and drones targeting Israel were intercepted is a win. “Take the win,” he told Netanyahu.
IAEA chief ‘always worried’ about potential attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi says Iran closed its nuclear facilities on Sunday over “security considerations” and that while they reopened on Monday, he has kept IAEA inspectors away “until we see that the situation is completely calm”.
“We are going to resume tomorrow [on Tuesday],” Grossi told reporters in New York. “This has not had an impact on our inspection activity.”
When asked about the possibility of an Israel strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Grossi said, “We are always concerned about this possibility”, and urged “extreme restraint”.
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