It will be larger than in April: the US is afraid that Iran will attract Hezbaall and other allies to the Iran attack
The US expects that the relevant actions of Iran will be similar to the Iranian attack on April 13, but will be more large -scale and probably with the participation of Hezbolla. Walla writes about it. The White House is convinced that Iran is going to attack Israel in the coming days as a revenge for the murder of Politburo Hamas Ismail Haniah in Tehran early this week - and are ready to help Israel to stop this attack.
But high -ranking officials in Baiden administration fear that this time the context is the murder of Hamas leader in Tehran, rather than Iranian General in Damascus, it may be more difficult for them to mobilize the same international and regional coalition of the Iran's previous attack.
It is reported that several Arab countries, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia, participated in the previous coalition, which helped to knock down Iranian and Hussite drones or allowed the US and Israel to use their airspace to intercept threats. "On Wednesday, July 31, the American intelligence community began to receive clear instructions that Iran was going to answer," one of the American officials said.
The other two were informed that Iranians and their emissaries would probably take a few days to coordinate and prepare an attack on Israel. Another high -ranking American official said that the Pentagon and the central command of the US Armed Forces are preparation similar to those they made before the Iranian attack on April 13. The US official reported that the training is conducted by the US Army in the Persian Gulf, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
"We expect a few difficult days," the White House said. The high -ranking Israeli official, for its part, said that, according to Israeli intelligence, Iran will respond "a very wide rocket stroke" on Israel. Meanwhile, the spokesman of Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Hagari stated at a press conference that there are international partners in Israel who will increase their strength in the region to help and restrain a possible attack.
Meanwhile, the leader of Hezbollah Hasan Nasralla has promised to respond to the attack of Israel in southern Beirut early this week, which resulted in the died of the chief commander of the group Fuad Shruk. During the funeral of Fuad Nasralla, he said "the answer would go beyond the daily border clashes between Hezbolla and Israeli troops that lasted during the Israeli Hamas war.
" He did not declare the war, but said that Israel had crossed the "red lines" in Beirut, as well as in Tehran, eliminating the leader Hamas Ismail Hanii, what Iran and Hamas were accused of Israel. Israel has not confirmed or denied its responsibility. "They started a war with all of us. We have now entered a new phase different from the previous one on all support fronts," Nasralla said, referring to Iran's supported network of armed groups that covers Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iraq.