Joe Biden vows 'ironclad' support for Israel amid fears missile attack by Iran ... trends now
US president Joe Biden on Wednesday vowed that American support for Israel is 'ironclad', amid fears the Middle Eastern nation will soon be attacked by Iran.
'As I told Prime Minister Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad. Let me say it again: ironclad. We're going to do all we can to protect Israel security,' Biden said at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Biden's top diplomat, Anthony Blinken, affirmed his words and told Israel's defence minister Yoav Gallant on a phone call that the US would stand behind Israel if Iran decides to attack.
An attack by Iran or its proxies against military and government targets in Israel are imminent, Bloomberg News reported citing intelligence sources, with one source saying it is more a matter of when, not if.
Tensions in the Middle East today flared after an Iranian news agency published a report on X saying all airspace over Tehran had been closed for military drills, before quickly removing the post and denying it had ever issued the news.
But Iran has promised to retaliate for an Israeli strike in Syria on April 1st that killed several senior Iranian commanders when Israeli forces hit the Iranian Embassy building in Damascus.
US president Joe Biden (pictured) on Wednesday vowed that American support for Israel is 'ironclad'
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (pictured) vowed to take revenge on Israel for the strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus
Rescue workers search in the rubble of a building annexed to the Iranian embassy a day after an air strike in Damascus
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks at the coffins of members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who were killed in the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in the Syrian capital Damascus
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Israel 'must be punished and it shall be' for the strikes on the embassy. He noted in a speech Wednesday for Eid al-Fitr that attacking an embassy 'means that they have attacked our soil.'
'The evil regime made a mistake and it should be punished and will be punished,' he added, according to IRNA, the state news agency.
Iran's main proxy group is Hezbollah, which is based in southern Lebanon and has
