Johnson’s promise to pass the aid bill to Israel

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim news agency, Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, said that he will try to stop Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone attack against Israel. to pass the aid bill to Israel in the Congress this week.

V In an interview with Fox News, he stated that we are working to pass this bill this week and the details of this aid package are currently being put together. We are looking for complementary options and topics.

Office Johnson declined to provide further details, but he is expected to meet and discuss national security issues with congressional lawmakers, including Michael McCall, chairman of the Congressional Foreign Relations Committee, this evening.

while Johnson’s two attempts to Passing the aid bill to Israel without allocating any aid to Ukraine has been ineffective.

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives made these statements while Palace Sefid announced in a statement that Joe Biden, in a phone call with Congress President 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, emphasized.

According to this statement, Biden in this phone call , emphasized the urgent need for Congress to approve this supplemental national security bill as soon as possible, while Congress President Mike Johnson is facing increasing pressure to vote on the foreign aid bill for America’s friendly and allied countries in the open floor of 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..

This is while Steve Scalise, the leader of the majority of the US House of Representatives, announced in a statement yesterday after the retaliatory missile and drone attack of the Islamic Republic To Israel, the lawmakers of the Congress, by changing their meeting schedule, will review the bill for allocating support funds for the Israeli regime and holding Iran accountable after this attack next week.

According to this report, it is not yet clear whether Scalise is referring to a separate aid bill for the Zionist regime, or if he means the same $95 billion supplemental bill in the US budget, which includes $14 billion in aid for this regime, plus $60 billion Aid to Ukraine, and allocation of aid funds to Taiwan to counter China’s influence and allocation of billions of dollars in humanitarian aid.

This supplementary bill in February this year with the support It was approved by 70 percent of the Senate, but remains blocked in Congress and has not been put to a vote because congressional lawmakers 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, calling Iran’s missile and drone response to the Zionist regime unprecedented, admitted that these attacks targeted Israeli military facilities.

Condemning Iran’s resolute 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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