WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM: US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday (Oct 9) and the two leaders were expected to discuss Israeli plans for a retaliatory strike on Iran.
This combination image shows, from left; President Joe Biden, on Mar 12, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Oct 28, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM: US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and the two leaders were expected to discuss Israeli plans for a retaliatory strike on Iran.
The call, underway late Wednesday morning US time, was the leaders' first known chat since August and coincided with a sharp escalation of Israel's conflict with both Iran and the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah with no sign of an imminent ceasefire to end the conflict with Iran-backed Hamas inNetanyahu has promised that arch-foe Iran will pay for its missile attack, while Tehran has said any retaliation would be met with vast destruction, raising fears of a wider war in the...
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