White House on high alert for possible Iran attack against Israel

U.S. intelligence believes Iran is preparing a retaliatory attack on Israel that could come at any time. A defense official tells CBS News that the U.S. is sending additional assets to the region to increase force protection for American troops already on the ground. Weijia Jiang is at the White House with the latest developments.

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[Afiso]

No, not much of the world is on alert. Only Israel and US taxpayers 😴

[cxr]

Doesn't Iran have a right to defend itself or is that exclusive to Israel?

[bladudemovies]

Are we just going to pretend that this isn’t the predictable response of Israel blowing up their embassy?

[Breese]

You’ll ain’t tired of involving yourselves in other countries conflicts?

[Rocanala]

It’s crazy how elected officials don’t give a damn about what their constituents want. At the federal, and state levels….

[dg]

“Don’t” 😂
His new favorite catchphrase!

[javiruiz]

What does this have to do with us!!! This is so annoying 🙄🙄🙄. We need Biden out

[PxNxWxGxW]

I go on high alert every time I think of going to the grocery store. Buying food is a luxury at this point.

[philswaim]

Israel is already on the offensive. Iran is just defending itself

[ammumeme]

I was listening to the radio while driving, and they were like, "Iran is going to attack Israel!!!" and then on a low key note "in response to a strike on their embassy". You almost feel like the strike kind of happened by itself, there was no perpetrator. At least none were mentioned. They managed to finish the whole segment without once mentioning Israel as an actor in anything but did mention Israel as a victim. The grammatical gymnastics were quite impressive. No wonder Americans know so little about the outside world. Our news is so heavily sanitized.

[wubuck]

Attack? You mean retaliate? Attacking the Iranian consulate was attacking Iran.

[Breese]

So the President is not concerned about redirecting conflict at the US? What a warmongering bunch of idiots

[tonymj]

Biden how about you DON’T run again!!! Your own country doesn’t have any respect for you.

[Sprinklebesties]

Europe is asking its citizens to leave Israel ? That would be most of the country 😂😂

[You_Could_Be_Next]

Remember when Trump was going to start all the wars?

[viharchampa]

Stop wasting our hard earned taxes Dollars,
On Foreign Wars.
Trying to be some kind of world police,
want to be a Hero?
Be a Hero to Americans, at Home !!
Fix America's infrastructure,
Supply chain.
End Homelessness.
End Food insecurities.
Make sure American seniors and American Heroes our vets are taken care of.
Charity begins at home !!
🤔

[docadams]

Can we just have peace? Common sense? War is senseless. Peace is right.

[scottgivens]

THE Old man says, "Don't" He is so weak it's disgusting. Get a real leader, this one is done!

[antonpopov]

That one word is all he could say without messing it up

[yunior]

How about we protect and help our damn country. FJB