A senior US official disclosed to Walla that Washington informed Tehran it would not be able to prevent Israel from reacting to an attack.
These speculations come after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei promised a "crushing response" to Israel's October 26 attack.
The attack is expected to be carried out from Iraq using a large number of drones and ballistic missiles, Axios reported.
China's capabilities outstrip Iran's in other ways, said Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Amir-Saeed Iravan told the UN Security Council on Thursday afternoon that Israel is “now a serious threat to international peace..."
An Israeli military spokesman said on Saturday that Israel would retaliate, following last week's missile attack by Tehran, "when the time is right."
“Israel has a compelling need, even an imperative, to respond. I think that no sovereign nation on Earth could fail to respond,” Barak said.
The unwritten rule is that the interceptor missile always costs more than the missile being intercepted.
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