Biden predicts that Iran will attack Israel "sooner rather than later" and sends a brief warning to Tehran: "No"

MADRID, 13 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, believes that Iran will attack Israel "sooner rather than later" in retaliation for last week's bombing of its consulate in Damascus (Syria) and has urged Iranian authorities not to launch an armed response.

"No," Biden warned at the end of the press conference held this Friday.

The president, as on other occasions, has assured that his country is "dedicated" to the defense of Israel and will provide all its support to the Israeli authorities in the event of the outbreak of an open conflict with the Islamic Republic.

"We support Israel, we will defend Israel and Iran is not going to win," Biden said about this hypothetical Iranian attack. "I don't want to talk about classified information, but I have the expectation that it will happen sooner rather than later," she said.

These comments come after the spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, insisted this Friday that a hypothetical direct attack by Iran against Israel was a "very credible, viable and imminent" scenario after a week of Iranian threats.

"We are very aware of a threat that we perceive as very public and very credible," Kirby said at a press conference this Friday.

In fact, two US government officials declared that same Friday and on condition of anonymity to CBS that Iran could launch, "before the end of the weekend," an attack "with more than a hundred drones and dozens of missiles against military bases inside Israeli territory.

The attack on the consulate in Damascus, attributed to Israel although its authorities have not commented, is considered the most serious launched against the Iranian presence in Syria, where numerous advisors of the Islamic Republic provide strategic aid to the Syrian Government and coordinate the activity. of militia groups in the Arab Republic.

At least 16 people were killed in the attack, including two civilians, although the majority of the victims were members of the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and several Syrian members of a militia related to Hezbollah.