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![]() ![]() From Bloomberg, "Israel Considers US Warnings in Calibrating New Iran Strikes": Israel said it’s weighing US misgivings over a planned counter-strike on Iran, after a report suggested the government is keeping nuclear and energy facilities off the target list to cap a potential escalation.Unfortunately, the "American" officials running the Biden administration feel the same way. Israel and the US have been conferring regularly on how to retaliate for Iran's Oct. 1 ballistic-missile salvo, a dilemma that's jangled nerves across the Middle East and in energy markets. The debate has tested the relationship between Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden, who has sought unsuccessfully to secure a truce in the country's conflicts with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.The THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system "costs about $1 billion a battery and requires a crew of about 100 [US troops] to operate it," the BBC reports. ![]() It appears that was part of the "compensation" package the US has reportedly offered Israel to moderate their strikes, though the Washington Post only said in their report that Biden agreed to send it after his discussion with Netanyahu in which Israel agreed not to strike Iran's nuclear and oil facilities. Iran reportedly told the US through backchannels last week that "if Israel's response to the [previous Iranian] ballistic missile attack is limited to certain targets, Iran would consider this round closed and would not respond" but US officials immediately leaked it to the Israelis (the news was reported by Israeli state broadcaster Kan). It will be truly astonishing if Netanyahu now blows off his pledge to Biden not to strike Iran's nuclear and oil sites due to the fifth column in his administration leaking Iran's backchannel communications. Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter, Facebook, Gab, Minds and Telegram. |