Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
United States President Joe Biden said on October 4 that Israel has not yet decided how it’s going to respond to Iran’s latest missile attack, but suggested it should not Attack Iranian oil facilities.
“If I were in their shoes, I’d be thinking about other alternatives than striking oil fields,” Biden said during a rare appearance at the White House daily press briefing.
Just a day earlier, the President said that the idea of an Israeli strike on Iranian oil facilities was “in discussion.” The remarks caused oil prices to rise sharply amid fears of a sudden shock to the global supply.
“I think — I think that would be a little — anyway,” Biden said on October 3, adding that Israel would ultimately make its own decisions on how to respond to Iran’s massive missile strike. Hours later, he said “I know not to negotiate in public” when asked if he had urged Israel not to attack Iran’s oil infrastructure.
Iran launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on October 1, hitting key security and military targets in the center and south of the country.
The attack was in response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas Movement, in Tehran last July, and the recent assassinations of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian General Abbas Nilforoushan in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the attack that Tehran had made “a big mistake” and “will pay for it.” From its side, the Pentagon announced the deployment of additional troops and warplanes in the Middle East.
Despite Biden’s recent remarks, Hebrew media reports suggested the Israeli response was being closely coordinated with the U.S.
Iran has already warned that any strike by Israel will be met with an even stronger attack with reports of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordering retaliatory strikes on Israeli infrastructure. Tehran and its allies also warned the U.S. and its allies in the region of aiding any Israeli attack on its territory.
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biden’s lip servive is pantomime… no point trying to discern the course of this war through his comments. israel is going to shoot off the other foot of the eu, nato shot the left foot called nord stream, israel will shoot the right foot called the straight of hormuz… get ready to freeze your assess off in the eu this winter…in solidarity with ukrainian nazis fudgepackers…
what a load of it. its for the wef s benefit. all of it serves their agendas imo.
the americans are absolutely 100% full of shit. duplicitous, non agreement capable. they say one thing in public and do the exact opposite in private. they are simply too perfidious like the english and jews, to go anywhere near mediation or negotiation with them. i think everybody in the global south now understands that. the west has lost our trust for good. they preach diversity and inclusion to westerners but practice racism and exclusion abroad.
what do you mean by the americans you trolloping transparency? if you mean biden then you’re talking irish catholic potato farmers like the kennedy the traditional american is a protestant.
what about all the irish, english and scottish slaves, er “indentured servents” trafficked in by jews for the irish, scottish and english governments/churches? a lot of catholics cleared off the lands by cromwell too, not just scottish lords doing their ‘clearances’… i think you’re generalizing a bit too much…
please god, make the zionist destroy iranian oil facility, because i want iran to destroy all the oil facilities in persian gulf!
do you live on some remote island that does not need any delivery of goods from anywhere? if not thats not a smart thing to wish for.
danny has his own donkey and cart to get around, and attaches a little windmill to his backside to generate all the electricity he needs. so he’s okay whatever happens.
go and google oil producing nations cther3z so much oil opec has to basically steal the supply chain away from venezuela, restrict countries pumping oil at all and close wells down all the time. if supply wasn’t artifcially restricted oil would be worth next to nothing. its all fraud. straight out fraud.
opec monopoly racket set up to defraud people of a fair price you mean to say? perhaps…
hehehe, biden is zero. the war mongers in the deep state are urging the war on in tbe middle east, just look at linsey graham and trump, they meet with and secretly protect netanyahoo telling him he is protected by the usa by whatever he does amd by whatever means to achieve it. the us govt hate iran, venezuela, cuba, russia and china and they will never let up and the us and eu govt has made it very clear to the world.
totally wrong. “america is our barracks” churchill. the us is a corporation registered in delaware the irish catholic potato farmers territory of biden and in puerto rico. and if you don’t understand rico they you’re a lost sheep.
biden and the deep state are israel . biden need only threaten to withhold american weapons and tax money to have nutty yahoo kiss his ass.
listen israel belongs to king charles he is king of israel. not the jews. they aren’t. they got used just like australias “convicts” aka slaves, to build israels infrastructures develop it and now they’re surplus to requirements as well as contrary to wefs globalisation agenda of universal multi cultural ism. its basic common sense.
biden is a barely walking, talking vegetable who’s perverted inclinations include sniffing peoples hair and almost killing himself while falling asleep in his bowl of tater mush.
pigs arse he’s as sharp as a tack at avoiding criminal culpability.
he’s been dead since 2019 you dip shits, being played by jim carrey with the bidenopolous mask. ask yourself, how the fuck did midgit biden grow to be taller than bibi in their last meeting photo op? the new biden is oddly the same height as jim, who has been very quiet and out of sight since talking on the roll.
it’s past time to rid the middle east of american cancer by blowing up their bases and sending the corpses home in black bags
what are you a superpower or some idiot. just tell them no strikes on iran and in exchange you send us troops to defend isreals borders and cities. then ask your friends india who are not involved in this conclict to find a settlement between isreal, hezbolah, hamas, iran.
a good alternative to attacking oil facilities would be for all the shlomos to jump of the nearest cliff or drown themselves in the nearest lake. and do us all a tremendous favour.
biden asked the izzies to “reconsider”… in other words, it would be nice if you don’t bomb iranian oil installations, but if you do — oh well, what can i say? i asked them nicely. the izzies don’t care if they crash the global economy and them committing political suicide. they are a death cult, after all. but biden should care about the future of his party.
they have probably already shorted chevron and shell stocks, 9/11 style.
most likely and also maxed out insurance coverage on important buildings and installations like larry silverstein did.