U.S. Prepares for Iran-led Attack on Israel

Following the killings of Hezbollah’s top military commander and Hamas’s seniormost leader in Beirut and Tehran, respectively, U.S. enhancements to Middle East force posture send vital signal of commitments to Israel’s defense in the face of Iranian escalation. But these signals are directly undermined by repeated public statements conveying America’s overarching desire to avoid escalation, and pleading with Tehran to curtail its military retaliation. Instead, the Biden administration’s surge of U.S. forces toward the region must be accompanied closely by firm and explicit deterrent warnings to Tehran and its proxies that any such attack is unacceptable, and will incur a prohibitively strong U.S.-Israeli response.

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