President Joe Biden will meet with his national security team on Monday to discuss developments in the Middle East as Israel and Iran inch closer to escalating attacks.
Vice President Kamala Harris will also attend the meeting in the Situation Room. Biden is expected to speak with King Abdullah II of Jordan earlier in the day.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting on Sunday that his country is already in a “multi-front” war with Iran and its proxies. To Israel’s north lies Lebanon, where a senior Hezbollah commander was killed last week. To the south is Gaza, where Israel has conducted nearly ten months of war against Hamas. And much further east is Iran, where Hamas’s top political leader was killed just hours after the Hezbollah leader’s death.
The killings, coming shortly after a rocket strike on Israel-controlled Golan Heights killed 12 children, have ignited already extremely tense relations in the Middle East. Iran’s top leadership, following the assassination of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, vowed “harsh revenge,” while Israel has said it is prepared to defend itself against any retaliatory strike.
The U.S., for its part, has sought to get messages to Tehran asking them not to escalate the conflict in fear of a wider war. It has asked Israel to de-escalate as well.
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Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, is hoping for the same. “We want the escalation to end,” Safadi said. He is in Iran for the first official visit of a senior Jordanian official to the country in over two decades.
Biden’s meeting on Monday comes after his handling of the war in Gaza helped crater his support among the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. How the U.S. responds to the developments in the Middle East is also likely to play a part in November’s election.
2024-08-05 03:32:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fnational-security%2F3110391%2Fbiden-meet-national-security-team-middle-east-tensions-mount%2F?w=600&h=450, President Joe Biden will meet with his national security team on Monday to discuss developments in the Middle East as Israel and Iran inch closer to escalating attacks. Vice President Kamala Harris will also attend the meeting in the Situation Room. Biden is expected to speak with King Abdullah II of Jordan earlier in the day.,
President Joe Biden will meet with his national security team on Monday to discuss developments in the Middle East as Israel and Iran inch closer to escalating attacks.
Vice President Kamala Harris will also attend the meeting in the Situation Room. Biden is expected to speak with King Abdullah II of Jordan earlier in the day.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting on Sunday that his country is already in a “multi-front” war with Iran and its proxies. To Israel’s north lies Lebanon, where a senior Hezbollah commander was killed last week. To the south is Gaza, where Israel has conducted nearly ten months of war against Hamas. And much further east is Iran, where Hamas’s top political leader was killed just hours after the Hezbollah leader’s death.
The killings, coming shortly after a rocket strike on Israel-controlled Golan Heights killed 12 children, have ignited already extremely tense relations in the Middle East. Iran’s top leadership, following the assassination of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, vowed “harsh revenge,” while Israel has said it is prepared to defend itself against any retaliatory strike.
The U.S., for its part, has sought to get messages to Tehran asking them not to escalate the conflict in fear of a wider war. It has asked Israel to de-escalate as well.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, is hoping for the same. “We want the escalation to end,” Safadi said. He is in Iran for the first official visit of a senior Jordanian official to the country in over two decades.
Biden’s meeting on Monday comes after his handling of the war in Gaza helped crater his support among the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. How the U.S. responds to the developments in the Middle East is also likely to play a part in November’s election.
, President Joe Biden will meet with his national security team on Monday to discuss developments in the Middle East as Israel and Iran inch closer to escalating attacks. Vice President Kamala Harris will also attend the meeting in the Situation Room. Biden is expected to speak with King Abdullah II of Jordan earlier in the day. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting on Sunday that his country is already in a “multi-front” war with Iran and its proxies. To Israel’s north lies Lebanon, where a senior Hezbollah commander was killed last week. To the south is Gaza, where Israel has conducted nearly ten months of war against Hamas. And much further east is Iran, where Hamas’s top political leader was killed just hours after the Hezbollah leader’s death. Iranians follow a truck, center, carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard who were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel on Wednesday, during their funeral ceremony at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) The killings, coming shortly after a rocket strike on Israel-controlled Golan Heights killed 12 children, have ignited already extremely tense relations in the Middle East. Iran’s top leadership, following the assassination of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, vowed “harsh revenge,” while Israel has said it is prepared to defend itself against any retaliatory strike. The U.S., for its part, has sought to get messages to Tehran asking them not to escalate the conflict in fear of a wider war. It has asked Israel to de-escalate as well. In this image provided by the White House, President Joe Biden, along with members of his national security team, receive an update on an ongoing airborne attack on Israel from Iran, as they meet in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, April 13, 2024. From left to right, facing Biden are, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns; Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Some papers on the desk have been blurred by the source for national security reasons. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP) CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, is hoping for the same. “We want the escalation to end,” Safadi said. He is in Iran for the first official visit of a senior Jordanian official to the country in over two decades. Biden’s meeting on Monday comes after his handling of the war in Gaza helped crater his support among the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. How the U.S. responds to the developments in the Middle East is also likely to play a part in November’s election., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Biden-Situation-Room.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Conrad Hoyt,
