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Iran says US is 'instigating and enabling' Israeli attack on its soil

Iran lashed out at the US on Monday, saying that US President Joe Biden was "instigating, inciting and enabling" an attack on its soil.

Iran's mission to the United Nations cited remarks by Biden in Germany last week, in which he said he knew of Israel's plan to attack Iran. Iran said the US leader had given "tacit approval and explicit support for Israel's unlawful military aggression". 

"The United States will bear full responsibility for its role in instigating, inciting and enabling any acts of aggression by Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran ... as well as for the catastrophic consequences on regional and international peace and security," Iran's UN mission said in a letter to the UN Security Council.