Israel Considers US Warnings in Calibrating New Iran Strikes
- Biden administration wants Iranian nuclear sites, oil spared
- Israel is receiving THAAD missile defense from Washington
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Israel said it’s weighing US misgivings over a planned counter-strike on Iran, after a report suggested the government is keeping nuclear and energy facilities off the target list to cap a potential escalation.
Yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also asserted the country is free to act how it chooses after more than a year of battling Iranian proxy groups and fending off two direct long-range attacks from the Islamic Republic, whose regional clout and nuclear aspirations Netanyahu sees as an existential threat.