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US trying to head off Israeli attack on Iran's oil infrastructure
9 October 2024 22:57 BST
Israel’s defence minister has posted a video to X saying that Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack “will be deadly, precise and above all surprising.”
“They will not understand what happened and how it happened…They will see the results," Yoav Gallant said.
Those comments may reflect secret lobbying by US defence and intelligence officials in the Biden administration as they look to steer Israel to pursue covert attacks against Iran as opposed to high-profile missile and drone strikes.
“A series of small-scale attacks, hitting different places, would destabilise the regime even more and sow confusion. Khamenei is already paranoid,” a senior US official told MEE, referring to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.