The United States military is moving additional assets into the Middle East to bolster deterrence and force protection ahead of an anticipated Iranian retaliatory strike against Israel, an American defense official has told Sputnik news agency.
The promised Iranian retaliation for the Israeli strike on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus is likely in the next 24-48 hours, anonymous US officials told Bloomberg on Wednesday.
US President Joe Biden has vowed that Washington's commitment to defend Israel against Tehran was “ironclad” as concerns rose in the United States that a “significant” Iranian strike could happen within days, in retaliation for the bombing of Iran’s consular building in Syria's Damascus that saw the killing of seven Iranian military advisors.
An Iranian attack on Israel would likely be carried out by Iran’s proxy forces in the region, rather than by Tehran directly, two people familiar with US intelligence on the matter told CNN.
The US is expecting that Iran will attack American or Israeli personnel in West Asia in retaliation for an Israeli fatal air raid in Syria, several news organizations reported on Friday and Saturday, citing US officials. Tehran has previously vowed to avenge the seven officers, including two top commanders with the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, who were killed in the bombing of the country’s consulate compound in Damascus on Monday.
The political deputy of the Iranian president’s office says the Islamic Republic warned the US in a letter against falling in the Israeli Prime Minister's trap following the recent deadly raid on Iran's consulate in Damascus, Syria.
The United States announced on Tuesday that it had no involvement in the Israeli air strike targeting the Iranian embassy compound in the Syrian capital Damascus, which resulted in the deaths of two Iranian generals and five other military advisors.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has stated, United States as the Israeli regime’s biggest supporter, should be “held accountable” following a fatal raid by Tel Aviv against Tehran's consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus. He added an important message was relayed to the American administration by Tehran.
A political analyst says a number of internal and international factors paint a complicated picture of the future regarding removal of US-led Western sanctions against Iran.
Washington has asked Tehran to rein in Yemen's Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea during secret indirect talks held in Oman earlier this year. The talks marked the first time the US and Iran have held negotiations in 10 months, according to a report by the Financial Times.
A legal court has fined an anti-Iran terrorist group supported by the US to pay 2.478 billion dollars in damages in a 2008 bombing case in southern Iran that left over 200 people dead and injured.
Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji says that Tehran’s oil exports won’t be hampered if Donald Trump wins the US presidential elections in November. He also added that sanctions and acts of sabotage have failed to stop the country’s progress in the oil sector.
Iran has confiscated a cargo of the US oil over a lawsuit filed by patients with a rare skin disease, whose lives are at risk due to Washington's sanctions.
The FBI has alleged that an Iranian intelligence agent is recruiting operatives in the United States to help kill current and former government officials who were involved in the January 2020 assassination of Tehran’s top general Qassem Soleimani.
Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called for the direct talks between Iran and the US over the revival of Tehran's nuclear deal, JCPOA.
The US Secret Service reportedly paid over $12 million to protect two security advisors of former President Donald Trump for fear of “possible threats” against their lives from Tehran in revenge for the assassination of top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani.
The United States and the United Kingdom have announced sanctions against a high-ranking member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and certain members of Yemen’s Houthi movement.
An international affairs expert says the Middle East is in transition to a new unstable order after the October 7 attack by Hamas which quote poses a threat to Iran.
A number of Arab countries are reportedly “increasingly restricting” the United States and its allies from conducting attacks from their soil against Iran and resistant groups in the West Asia region amid the Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Iran’s Vice President for Legal Affairs Mohammad Dehqan has stressed that the country will reciprocate if its ships are seized illegally, as the United States acknowledges the confiscation of Iranian oil.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani says US citizens face no bans if they decide to visit Iran. Kanaani made this remark in response to a question about the visit of American adult film actress Whitney Wright to Iran.
A senior advisor to Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has rejected former US president Donald Trump’s claim, recently repeating that Iran intentionally avoided targeting a US base in Iraq in January 2020 in retaliation for the assassination of top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani.
