Islam Times - US Believes Iranian Attack on Israel Not to Escalate to Full-Scale War: Kirby

Islam Times - US President Joe Biden believes that the Iranian attack on Israel will not escalate into a full-scale war and will not lead to further escalation in the region, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said.

"I don’t think that there is any reason that it needs to," he said, speaking to an NBC host.

"The [US] president does not believe that it needs to move in that direction," he said, commenting on the host’s question about a full-scale war between Iran and Israel.

Kirby also noted that the US does not want an escalation and does not seek a war with Iran at a greater scale.

"What Israel demonstrated last night was an incredible ability to defend itself, just their own military superiority was quite remarkable, […] and the damage was extraordinary light," he said.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a retaliatory strike on multiple locations in Israel, in response to an Israeli terrorist attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria on 1 April 2024.

On 1 April 2024, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing 16 people, including a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a senior commander along with six other IRGC officers. Six Syrian civilians also were killed in the attack.