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I hope so. I don't know."
Asked by reporters whether Iran would stand down, Biden said on Saturday in response to a shouted question Tensions are high, and the situation could deteriorate rapidly."
Britain urged its citizens in Lebanon on Saturday to leave immediately, with Foreign Secretary David Lammy saying To maintain a carrier strike group presence in the Middle East, the Secretary has ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, currently on deployment in the Central Command area of responsibility,
Mr Austin has ordered adjustments to US military posture designed to improve US force protection, to increase support for the defense of Israel, and to ensure the United States is prepared to respond to various contingencies.”
Do they expect that Hajj Ismail Haniyeh will be killed in Iran and Iran will remain silent?”
Laugh a bit and you will cry a lot.”
Addressing Israelis who celebrated the two killings, he said This terrorist operation was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kilograms — causing a strong explosion — from outside the accommodation area,
the Guards said in a statement We are preparing for what might come our way, such as an evacuation. But at the moment we are only in the preparation phase, not in the action phase,
An IDF [military] aircraft struck a vehicle and terrorist cell operating within the area of Tulkarm,
Because they have picked a fight with everyone, they don’t know where the response will come from … the response will come separately or coordinated,
he said in a speech on Thursday One of the lines of argument in Iran right now is that they need to show a firm response and show their readiness to enter into a war in order to de-escalate,
said Hamidreza Azizi, an expert on Iran and a non-resident fellow with the Middle East Council on Global Affairs think tank in Doha, Qatar Based on what I can see, this time Iran might not actually give an exact prior warning to the US and US allies in the region [about its next attack on Israel],
The US [in April] basically made it clear to Israel that they will be there to defend them but not go on the offensive with them,
said Mortazavi, to explain why Israel did not escalate further after Iran’s missile and drone attack It could be a staggered operation with Iran taking the lead and then followed by [attacks from] the other armed groups,
That would then lead to a stronger Israeli response and then that would lead to more tit-for-tat [attacks] leading to war,
I think the overall strategic outlook remains the same in the sense that Hezbollah does not want to escalate this into a massive war,
said Nicholas Blanford, an expert on Hezbollah with the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, DC Both sides have an interest in pushing a narrative,
Mortazavi told Al Jazeera [Iran’s leaders think] that if they don’t do that, then Israel is not going to stop and after some time there might be Iranian officials being targeted openly by Israel in the country,
There is definitely a wider margin when Hezbollah wants to respond beyond the comfort zone of the past 10 months, because if Hezbollah opts to strike deep into Israeli territory then it entails a high risk of casualties,
The Department of Defense continues to take steps to mitigate the possibility of regional escalation by Iran or Iran’s partners and proxies,