{"id":17935,"date":"2024-04-14T12:46:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/14\/white-house-says-us-support-for-israel-is-ironclad-will-support-their-defense-amid-iran-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:46:50","slug":"white-house-says-us-support-for-israel-is-ironclad-will-support-their-defense-amid-iran-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/14\/white-house-says-us-support-for-israel-is-ironclad-will-support-their-defense-amid-iran-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"White House says US support for Israel is \u2018ironclad,\u2019 will \u2018support their defense\u2019 amid Iran attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">The White House vowed Saturday that the United States\u2019 support for Israel\u2019s security is \u2018ironclad,\u2019 pledging to stand with the Jewish state and \u2018support their defense\u2019 after Iran launched an aerial drone attack towards the country Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Iran launched drones from its own territory toward Israel late Saturday, days after its Supreme Leader warned it would hit back in response to an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria that left several generals dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Iran has begun an airborne attack against Israel,\u2019 White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement Saturday. \u2018President Biden is being regularly updated on the situation by his national security team and will meet with them this afternoon at the White House.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House said the president\u2019s team \u2018is in constant communication with Israeli officials as well as other partners and allies.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This attack is likely to unfold over a number of hours,\u2019 Watson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018President Biden has been clear: our support for Israel\u2019s security is ironclad,\u2019 Watson continued. \u2018The United States will stand with the people of Israel and support their defense against these threats from Iran.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president is expected to meet with national security officials to discuss the events in the Middle East in the White House Situation Room Saturday evening. The officials will likely include Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown, CIA Director Bill Burns, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president was briefed earlier in the day by his national security team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Sullivan said he spoke his Israeli counterpart, National Security Advisor Hanegbi. Sullivan said that during the call, he \u2018reiterated the United States\u2019 ironclad commitment to the security of Israel.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Austin spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant to \u2018reiterate unwavering U.S. support for Israel\u2019s defense.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018The United States stands with Israel amid threats from Iran and its regional proxies,\u2019 Austin said Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday afternoon, IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari confirmed that Iran had \u2018launched a direct attack from Iranian soil toward the State of Israel.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are closely monitoring Iranian killer drones that are en-route to Israel sent by Iran,\u2019 Hagari said. \u2018This is a severe and dangerous escalation. Our defensive and offensive capabilities are at the highest level of readiness ahead of this large- scale attack from Iran.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hagari added that \u2018together with our partners, the Israel Defense Forces is operating at full-force to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is a mission that we are determined and ready to fulfill,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had for weeks \u2018been preparing for the possibility of a direct attack from Iran.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said Israel\u2019s \u2018air defenses are deployed, we are ready for any scenario, both in attack and in defense.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I established a clear principle \u2014 whoever hurts us, we hurt him. We will protect ourselves from any threat and we will do so with coolness and determination,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack on Iran\u2019s consulate in Damascus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House vowed Saturday that the United States\u2019 support for Israel\u2019s security is \u2018ironclad,\u2019 pledging to stand with the Jewish state and \u2018support their defense\u2019 after Iran launched an aerial drone attack towards the country Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Iran launched drones from its own territory toward Israel late Saturday, days after its Supreme Leader warned <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}