President Joe Biden met on Monday with his national security team in anticipation of a retaliatory attack by Tehran over what it alleges was Israel’s killing of a Hamas leader on its soil.
The high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room occurred as the United States aims to cool tensions in the region, sparked by the killing of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh last week during an airstrike targeting his housing in the Iranian capital after he attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president.
Iran has since blamed Israel for the assassination and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to retaliate….