US President Joe Biden said he does not expect Iran to carry out a retaliatory strike on Israel in response to the assassinations of Hamas and Hizbollah leaders if a deal is reached to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of Israeli hostages.
Asked whether there was any link between the possibility of attacks from Iran and its proxies and an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war, Biden replied: “That’s my expectation”.
Washington has been preparing for Tehran or its proxies to launch an attack on Israel this week in retaliation for its assassinations of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hizbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut.