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Summary: https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-begins-pressuring-israel-to-minimize-response-to-unprecedented-iranian-attack-reports
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President Joe Biden has already reportedly started to pressure Israel to 
minimize their response to the unprecedented attack that it faced on Saturday 
when the Islamic Republic of Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at 
the country.

Two Israeli officials told The New York Times that Iran launched 185 one-way 
suicide drones, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, and 36 cruise missiles.

Dana Stroul, formerly the Pentagon’s top Middle East policy official who is 
now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that whatever 
Iran’s goal was for this attack, it fell “well short of that objective.”

“Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel 
cannot respond,” Stroul added.

U.S. officials have asked that Israel notify the U.S. before launching any 
kind of military response, CNN reported. This is the first time that Iran has 
ever directly attacked the Jewish state.

CNN added that the Biden administration was urging the Israelis to have 
“containment in mind” rather than escalating the attacks, even though the 
administration told the network that they viewed Iran’s attack as 
“disproportionate” to Israel killing the Iranian general.

The report said that Biden was focused on “preventing a full-scale regional 
conflict from erupting.”

Israel’s security cabinet authorized the country’s three-man war cabinet — 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, and 
Benny Gantz — to decide the country’s response to the Iranian attack.

NBC News reported that the Biden administration was “concerned” that Israel 
could launch a warranted military response “without thinking through 
potential fallout afterward.”

The report said that Biden “has privately expressed concern” that Netanyahu 
could get the U.S. involved in a war in the Middle East, which comes after 
Biden relaxed sanctions enforcement on Iran, allowing the world’s leading 
state sponsor of terrorism to make $80 billion in oil revenues.

“I don’t think they had a strategy,” a senior Biden administration official 
said of Israel’s decision last week to kill an Iranian general who was 
involved in helping Hamas plan and execute its October 7 massacre on Israel.

The Biden official continued to throw Israel under the bus, claiming: “The 
Israelis don’t always make the best strategic decisions.”

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