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Biden warns Iran to 'be careful'
During his speech to a group of Jewish community leaders in Washington,
Joe Biden warned Iran to “be careful”, adding that the US is sending more military assistance to help Israel fight Hamas militants.
Biden’s remarks marked the first time he connected the US deployment of a carrier fleet near to Israel to concerns Iran might seek to become involved, Reuters reported. The US president said:
We moved the US carrier fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and we are sending more fighter jets to that region, and made it clear to the Iranians: Be careful.
US officials have said they have not been able to establish a direct link between the Hamas attack but are searching to see if they can find one.
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Biden: Hamas attack on Israel 'deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust'
Joe Biden addressed a round table of Jewish leaders in Washington on Wednesday, where he described the bloody assault on Israel by Hamas as "the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust”.
The US president said Saturday’s attack was “sheer evil” and a “campaign of pure cruelty against the Jewish people”.
“Silence is complicity,” Biden said. “I refuse to be silent”. He said he had spoken again today with Israel’s prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, and that the US is “surging” additional military assistance to the Israel Defense Forces.
He said the US was “working on every aspect” of the hostage crisis in Israel, but that “the idea that I’m going to stand here before you and tell you what I’m doing is bizarre”.
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