US president reiterates support for Israel in call with Netanyahu amid reports that he is also opposed to counterattack.

US President Joe Biden has condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledging a coordinated Group of Seven (G7) diplomatic response while highlighting the United States’s help in taking down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles.

Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned to Washington, DC to meet advisers over the late Saturday night attack, said in a statement released by the White House that the US forces and facilities had not been hit.

The US president said he reiterated the “ironclad” support for Israel’s security in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he has had strained relations over Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza.

“Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” he said.

“And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people,” he said.

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  • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Iran has kept their end of the bargain of not attacking US targets. Of course the US does not keep theirs of not interfering, and shoots down Iranian drones instead.

    In a written message to Washington, Iran “warned the US not to get dragged into Netanyahu’s trap”, Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, wrote on X, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US should “step aside so that you don’t get hit”.

    “In response, the US asked Iran not to hit American targets,” Jamshidi said.

    • ReallyKinda@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      Related to bargaining, I read the wiki article on Iran’s nuclear program the other day and was surprised at how hard they are trying to do their nuclear program “by the book” while the US keeps blocking everyone else from agreeing that they’re entitled as long as they follow the guidelines (paris agreement etc).

      • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Literally this

        Iran needs to get nukes fast. The US will be itching for war until it does.

        • Cypher@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          This is why I was cheering when North Korea got nukes.

          North Korea is a horrific shit show but war against North Korea would almost certainly end in direct conflict with China.

          Now that NK has nukes there is zero risk of the West initiating a conflict. The risk is too high.

          Any change in NK will need to happen internally or by pressure from their allies. Which sucks for the NK people but is probably still less horrific than war.

          • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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            7 months ago

            The current problems in the DPRK stem from the brutal sanctions. Prior to the USSR’s overthrow when the sanctions had far less effect, the North was developing and urbanizing faster than the South, even with 20% of its population killed, and all its infrastructure destroyed, by the US.

            Agree with you on the nukes of course. The DPRK would’ve ended up like Libya right now and the US might have been at war against China if they didn’t develop their nuclear deterrence.

            • Cypher@lemmy.world
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              7 months ago

              I’m not interested in tankie propaganda about how NKs problems are all due to the West.

              NK is a dictatorship and like all dictators Kim Jong Un and all his key supporters should be executed.

            • livus@kbin.social
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              7 months ago

              Well this has got to be one of the least persuasive things I’ve ever read:

              A measure of the success of the Taean Work System is its longevity and its continued endorsement by the leadership. In his 1991 New Year’s address marking the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the system, Kim Il Sung said that the "Taean work system is the best system

            • Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              7 months ago

              The highest managerial authority under the Taean system is the party committee. Each committee consists of approximately twenty-five to thirty-five members elected from the ranks of managers, workers, engineers, and the leadership of “working people’s organizations” at the factory.

              Workplace democracy in action.

            • Pascal@lemdro.idEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Notice how you don’t address anything they said because it’s true.

              The US has been the only country genocidal enough to use a nuclear bomb on actual human beings, and they did it twice at that. Having a nuclear deterrence to keep such a war-mongering country out is important. And it’s been working as we can see.

              • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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                7 months ago

                No idea what I wrote because the fucking thin-skinned mods removed my comment.

                Bombing Japan wasn’t genocide you schmuck. Japan declared war on the USA. God damn there is some ignorant fucks on .ml

        • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Instructions unclear

          Got Pakistani COAS’s head stuck in Biden’s ***

    • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      The USA didn’t say they wouldn’t interfere. The opposite was said, actually. Iran has in fact targeted a US Base before although they did give warning ahead of time.

      You’re just making shit up OP.