Iran attack: House speaker plans vote on Israel aid; IDF vows retaliation for strikes
The United States will put in place new sanctions targeting Iran and entities that support its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, “in the coming days,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said today.
Sullivan said that the U.S. military will also work to strengthen missile defense and early warning systems across the Middle East “to further erode the effectiveness of Iran’s missile and UAV capabilities.”
“These new sanctions and other measures will continue a steady drumbeat of pressure to contain and degrade Iran’s military capacity and effectiveness and confront the full range of its problematic behaviors,” Sullivan said in a statement.
European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said its foreign affairs council met today and was united in increasing its sanctions against Iran.
Borrell said on X that if there is a spiral of attacks and the intensity of responses between Israel and Iran increases each time, there will be a full-scale war.
“The region doesn’t need it, the world doesn’t need it,” Borrell said.
