US Threatens Iran With ‘Cataclysmic’ Consequences If It Strikes Israel
A US official threatened Iran on Friday that it would face “cataclysmic” consequences if it attacked Israel in response to the Israeli killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.
A senior US official told AFP that the US “would encourage the Iranians — and I know many are — not to move down that road because the consequences could be quite cataclysmic, particularly for Iran.”
The US has vowed to defend Israel if it faces a major attack from Iran and its allies and has deployed more military assets to the region for that purpose. Israel is also expecting an escalation from Hezbollah in response to the killing of Fuad Shukr, a Hezbollah military commander who was targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on July 30. Haniyeh was killed only a few hours later, early in the morning of July 31.
