{"id":26068,"date":"2024-04-15T02:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26068"},"modified":"2024-04-15T02:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:24:04","slug":"u-s-congress-blames-biden-for-escalating-tensions-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26068","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congress blames Biden for escalating tensions in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Speaking about Iran&#8217;s attacks on Israel, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the actions of the Joe Biden administration led to these &#8220;horrible events.&#8221;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The Biden administration&#8217;s subversion of Israel and connivance of Iran contributed to these horrific events,&#8221; Johnson wrote on his social media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio wrote on the same social media platform that Iran&#8217;s attack on Israel would be &#8220;larger&#8221; than originally expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240413\/1058378738.html\">Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said late Sunday that it was launching attacks on Israeli territory in response to an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate<\/a>&nbsp;in Syria in early April&nbsp;. It is reported that the attack involved dozens to hundreds of missiles and drones, including the &#8220;Shahed&#8221; kamikaze drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Israel Defense Forces said the armed forces were on high alert. The Pentagon said it would support Israel, while Iran&#8217;s mission to the United Nations described the unfolding events as a conflict between Tehran and Tel Aviv, urging Washington to &#8220;stay away.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On April 1, the Israeli Air Force attacked the Iranian Consulate General building in Damascus, the capital of Syria. According to Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, seven officers were killed at the time, including two senior advisory generals, Mohammad-Reza Zahedi, the senior commander of the Quds Force of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and his deputy Haji Haji. Brigadier General Rahimi. Tehran said it reserved the right to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240414\/1058386158.html\">Sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking about Iran&#8217;s attacks on Israel, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the actions of the Joe Biden administration led to these &#8220;horrible events.&#8221; &#8220;The Biden administration&#8217;s subversion of Israel and connivance of Iran contributed to these horrific events,&#8221; Johnson wrote on his social media Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio wrote on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1925,1169,5571,1232,1615,1239],"class_list":["post-26068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-attacks","tag-biden","tag-blame","tag-congress","tag-iran","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26070,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions\/26070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}