GulfToday logo US talks potential Israeli strikes on Iranian oil installations. Three hours ago. Facebook Sharing Button Twitter Sharing Button Share buttons for WhatsApp and emails. A view of Tehran city. President Joe Biden stated on Thursday that the US is considering strikes on Iran’s oil infrastructure in retribution for Tehran’s missile attack on Israel, while Israel’s military launched further air raids on Beirut in its struggle against the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah. As Israel considers its choices following Iran’s largest-ever assault on Tuesday, Biden was asked if he would back Israel striking Iran’s oil facilities. “We are discussing it,” Biden told reporters. His statements contributed to a jump in global oil prices, and escalating Middle East tensions have worried traders.

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon told CNN on Thursday that his country has “a lot of options” for retribution and will demonstrate its might to Tehran “soon”. A US official stated that Washington does not believe Israel has yet chosen how to respond to Iran. Dahiye, a stronghold of the Iran-backed militia Hizbollah, saw further attacks near midnight on Thursday after Israel ordered civilians to leave their houses in areas of the district, according to residents and security sources. The air assaults targeted Hizbollah officer Hashem Safieddine, the suspected successor to murdered Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a subterranean bunker, according to Axios reporter Barak Ravid on X and three Israeli officials. Safieddine’s fate was unclear, he stated.

Israel’s military declined to respond. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged that Iran will pay for Tuesday’s missile attack, and Washington has indicated it will work with its old partner to guarantee Iran faces “severe consequences.” Speaking in Doha on Thursday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that Tehran will be ready to reply.

Any type of military attack, terrorist act, or violation of our red lines would elicit a firm response from our armed forces,” he added. On Thursday, Israel’s military ordered the evacuation of more than 20 towns in south Lebanon as part of its cross-border offensive. The new warnings brought the total number of southern towns subject to evacuation orders to 70, including the provincial capital Nabatieh, signalling that another Israeli military assault on Hizbollah was imminent. More than a dozen Israeli airstrikes hit Dahiye, Beirut’s southern district, on Thursday, according to Lebanese security sources and residents. Israel has bombed Dahiye with munitions, including rockets that killed Nasrallah a week ago and damaged an entire block.

More than a dozen Israeli airstrikes hit Dahiye, Beirut’s southern district, on Thursday, according to Lebanese security sources and residents. Israel has bombed Dahiye with munitions, including rockets that killed Nasrallah a week ago and damaged an entire block. According to a Reuters witness, several of the strikes on Thursday night took place near Beirut’s international airport, which borders Dahiye. Hizbollah also launched additional attacks, firing rockets toward Israel’s “Sakhnin base” for military industries near Haifa Bay on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel. Warning sirens rang again late Thursday, as did those in the northern Israeli district of Galilee, and the Israeli military reported that 10 rockets had infiltrated Israel from Lebanon. They are either intercepted,

The group also called for caution, a truce in Gaza, and an end to hostilities in Lebanon. “A dangerous cycle of attacks and retaliation risks fuelling uncontrollable escalation in the Middle East, which is in no one’s interest,” the group warned in a press release. Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, also called for genuine cease-fire measures to put an end to what he described as Israeli aggression.