Biden reached out to congressional leaders to help Israel

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim News Agency, US President Joe Biden, in a phone call with 4 senior leaders of the Congress, asked them to approve the bill to allocate aid funds to friendly and allied countries to approve.

The White House announced in a statement that Joe Biden, in a phone call with Congress Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Congress Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, about Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel and the need to send foreign aid to friendly and allied countries.

According to this statement, in this phone call, Biden emphasized the urgent need for congressional action to pass this supplementary national security bill as soon as possible, while President Mike Johnson The Congress is facing increasing pressure to vote on the foreign aid bill for America’s friendly and allied countries in the open floor of the Congress. This bill has already been approved in the US Senate, but it has not been voted on in Congress due to the opposition of some Republicans.

In a statement, while confirming this phone call, Chuck Schumer emphasized the support of the United States to Israel and asked Johnson to approve the aid bill. Approve foreign aid that includes aid to Ukraine and Israel.

Schumer stated that America’s commitment to defend Israel’s security is iron and firm. We must help Israel stand firm against Iran. The best course for Congress is to pass this bipartisan bill approved by the Senate.

While McConnell and Jeffries have not yet commented on last night’s conversation with Biden, however, both of them expressed support after Iran’s retaliatory attack on occupied territories. They all emphasized the defense of Israel.

This is despite the fact that the Steve Scalise, the leader of the majority of the US House of Representatives, in a statement announced that after the retaliatory missile and drone attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Israel, the lawmakers of the Congress by changing their meeting schedule, the bill to allocate support funds for the Israeli regime and to answer Iran will investigate the attack next week.

According to this report, it is not yet clear whether Scalise is a He refers to the separate aid bill for the Zionist regime, or he means the 95 billion dollar supplemental bill in the US budget, which includes 14 billion dollars in aid to this regime, plus 60 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine, and allocation of aid funds to Taiwan in response with the influence of China and the allocation of billions of dollars in humanitarian aid.

This supplementary bill was approved in February of this year with the support of 70% of the members of the Senate, but it remains blocked in the Congress. It has not been put up for a vote because lawmakers in Congress oppose more aid funding for Ukraine. The bill is also opposed by a group of left-leaning Democrats who want to allocate more aid to Israel while it massacres innocent people in Gaza.

In the morning of Saturday, April 25, the public relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that in response to the numerous crimes of the Zionist regime, including the attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus and the martyrdom of a group of commanders and military advisors of our country in Syria. The IRGC Aerospace Force fired dozens of missiles and drones at certain targets inside the occupied territories.

According to Tasnim, this operation was in response to the attack on April 13 The Zionist regime is referring to the Iranian consulate in Damascus and the testimony of senior Iranian advisors in this country.

Also Iran’s massive missile and drone response to the attack of the Israeli regime on the Iranian consular building in Damascus was widely reflected in the world media and became the headline of most media.

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden called Iran’s missile and drone response to the Zionist regime as unprecedented and admitted that these attacks targeted Israeli military facilities.

Condemning Iran’s decisive missile and drone response, he said: I spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone to emphasize the strong commitment of the United States to Israel’s security.

He claimed: We helped Israel shoot down all the drones and missiles fired thanks to our systems that we have deployed in the region to destroy ballistic missiles.

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