Kirby has acknowledged that there were several communications with Iran before the attack, but has assured that, at no time, was there “any message about when the attack would be or against what targets.”
He U.S. government He denied this Monday, through all possible means, that Iran notified him in advance of when the attack against Israel was going to take place and the targets it planned to hit, contradicting the version of the Iranian Government and other neighboring countries. “That notion is ridiculous,” he said at a press conference. John Kirbyone of the White House spokespersons.
“Could you imagine a world where Iran calls and says, ‘Hey, we’re going to try to attack Israel with 300 cruise missiles and drones, we just wanted you to know. Oh, by the way, here are our targets’? Sorry, That didn’t happen,” he said.
Kirby has acknowledged that there were several communications with Iran before the attack through Switzerland, which acts as an intermediary between the two nations; But he has assured that, at no time, was there “any message about when the attack would be or against what objectives.”
Spokespeople for the State Department and the Pentagon also defended this same version, which contradicts what was said by Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who claims that they notified Washington 72 days in advance of the attack.
The Joe Biden Government’s version also contradicts what US allies in the region such as Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have said, whose officials confirmed that Iran gave 72 hours’ notice of its attack against Israel, according to US media.
Iran launched more than 300 drones, missiles and ballistic missiles against Israel early Sunday morning in response to the April 1 bombing of its consulate in Damascus, in what marked the first attack of this type from Iranian soil.
Source: Eitb
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