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Mosby

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Sun Apr 21, 2024, 10:29 AM Apr 2024

Inside the White House's Frenetic Scramble to Avert a Full-Blown Middle East War

WASHINGTON—President Biden and his national-security team watched with mounting alarm on April 13 as monitors in the White House Situation Room showed 30, then 60, then over 100 Iranian ballistic missiles streaking toward Israel.

Iranian cruise missiles and a swarm of drones were already in the air, timed to arrive at the same time as the missiles—a massive barrage that Biden and his aides feared could overwhelm the strengthened defenses they and Israel had spent more than a week preparing.

The scale of Tehran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel matched U.S. spy agencies’ worst-case scenarios, U.S. officials said later. It threatened not only a close U.S. ally, but Biden’s hopes of preventing a six-month Middle East crisis from widening into an all-out regional war.

Assembling in the Situation Room at 5:15 p.m. that Saturday, Biden and his aides couldn’t be sure that Israel’s antimissile systems, reinforced by the U.S. military’s antimissile and counterdrone deployments in the previous 10 days, would block nearly 99% of Iran’s salvo.


https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/white-house-scramble-avert-middle-east-war-fc012c43?st=op4xr519agrrf78&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

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Inside the White House's Frenetic Scramble to Avert a Full-Blown Middle East War (Original Post) Mosby Apr 2024 OP
Netanyahu is a threat to the US. Autumn Apr 2024 #1
The article explains that he cooperated with the US. Mosby Apr 2024 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Autumn Apr 2024 #4
Now imagine Trump in the situation room.... Grins Apr 2024 #2

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