WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Friday (Oct 4) advised Israel against striking Iran's oil facilities, saying he was trying to rally the world to avoid the escalating prospect of all-out war in the Middle East.
President Joe Biden speaks at the top of the daily press briefing, Friday, Oct 4, 2024, at the White House in Washington. WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Friday advised Israel against striking Iran 's oil facilities, saying he was trying to rally the world to avoid the escalating prospect of all-out war in the Middle East.
"If I were in their shoes, I'd be thinking about other alternatives than striking oil fields," Biden told reporters when asked about his comments a day earlier that Washington was discussing the possibility of such strikes with its ally. "They asked him, 'what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran?' And he goes, 'As long as they don't hit the nuclear stuff.' That's the thing you want to hit, right?" Trump told a town hall-style event in Fayetteville, near a major US military base."When they asked him that question, the answer should have been, hit the nuclear first, and worry about the rest later," Trump added.
It comes at a tense time as he prepares to leave office with the Mideast situation boiling over and political criticism at home over his handling of a recent hurricane that struck the US southeast. "But when you have proxies as irrational as Hezbollah and the Houthis ... it's a hard thing to determine."
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