US President Joe Biden on Friday advised reporters on the White House that he expects Iran to assault Israel “ahead of later”. “I don’t want to get into secure information but my expectation is sooner than later,” Biden was quoted as saying by CNN. When requested what message he want to ship Iran at this second, Biden stated: “Don’t”.

Biden also said that the US remains devoted to the defence of Israel, as was evidenced by US moving additional defence assets to West Asia after Lebanese group Hezbollah said it fired “dozens of Katyusha rockets” at Israeli artillery positions Friday.

“We are dedicated to the defence of Israel. We will assist Israel, we are going to assist defend Israel and Iran won’t succeed,” Biden stated.

The Hezbollah missile attack was in response to Israeli strikes in the south, the Iran-backed Lebanese group said.

The US has been on high alert for a significant Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel in recent days as fears grow of a wider regional war.

There remains a “real,” “credible” and “viable” menace of Iran launching strikes, the White House stated Friday, following Israel’s assault on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria final week that killed three Iranian generals.

The Israeli military stated “roughly 40 launches had been recognized crossing from Lebanese territory, a few of which had been intercepted”.

“No injuries were reported,” it stated, including that it had earlier intercepted two Hezbollah assault drones that had crossed from Lebanon.

Lebanon and Israel are technically at warfare because the creation of the latter and have abided by the overall ceasefire settlement because the 2006 Lebanon warfare.

The violence has thus far killed not less than 363 individuals in Lebanon, principally Hezbollah fighters but in addition together with not less than 70 civilians, in response to a tally by information company AFP.