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No advance warning to US ahead of attack: Iran’s UN mission

In a statement, Iran’s mission to the United Nations says the Iranian government did not send any prior warning to the US before it launched its missile attack on Israel.

“However, a serious warning was issued afterwards,” the statement added.

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller, speaking at a news briefing, also said the US received no advance warning of the attack from the Iranian government.

A few hours before the attack, US officials said they had “indications” Iran was readying for an imminent attack.


Israeli army threatens ‘surprise’ retaliatory attack

Israel’s military has issued another statement threatening retaliation for Iran’s missile barrage.

In a post on X, the military said it will “choose when … to prove our precise and surprising attack capabilities” against Iran.

Citing its “strong air defence system”, the military also claimed it had proven its “ability to prevent the enemy from achieving its goals”.


Iran’s Zarif slams Western ‘hypocrisy’, says Israel and allies ‘responsible for consequences’

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s former foreign minister and current strategic adviser to President Masoud Pezeshkian, has criticised Western “hypocrisy”, calling it “not just outrageous, but extremely dangerous”.

In a post on X, Zarif said Western countries “have aided and abetted the Israeli genocide in Gaza and acquiesced in Israeli aggressions against Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and other countries in the region”.

He added that Iran has an “inherent right” of self-defence against repeated Israeli attacks. “Israel and its allies alone are responsible for all consequences of Israel’s persistent provocations and escalations,” Zarif said.


Biden: United States is fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel

US President Joe Biden said there were active discussions ongoing over how Israel would respond, adding that the consequences remain to be seen and that he would soon speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective,” Biden said, echoing an earlier statement made by his national security adviser. “Make no mistake: the United States is fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel.”


After Iran’s attack, Lebanese grappling with prospect of full-fledged war

When it comes to the Iranian attack on Israel, Lebanon is part of this whole scene.

But I haven’t seen much celebration here. I’ve seen people trying to contemplate what is happening … the possibility of an all-out war in the region. A regional war would mean Lebanon would get even more immersed. That is the main issue many are trying to digest.


US failure to pressure Israel to end Gaza fighting leading to regional war

Analysts have been warning for months that the failure of the Biden’s administration to pressure Netanyahu’s government to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza would push the Middle East into a regional war.

“A regional war becomes inevitable when the US continues to fund and aid Netanyahu and all of his war crimes, his genocide, his attacks on all of his neighbours,” Raed Jarrar, advocacy director at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a think tank in Washington, DC told Al Jazeera.

“This will not stop without the US putting its foot down and saying ‘we will not send more weapons to Israel, we will not fund and aid Israeli crimes’,” Jarrar said.