The US wants to defuse the crisis with its absence of official reaction

The US reaction to Israel's bombing of Isfahan has been strange. Because there has been no such reaction. Neither the White House nor the State Department issued any official statement.. Biden, as a campaigner, did not even broach the issue at a meeting with unions at the same Washington Hilton Hotel where Ronald Reagan was almost assassinated in 1981. White House spokesman for National Security issues, John Kirby, canceled a meeting 'on the record' with the Foreign Correspondents Association in Washington “due to the recent events of last night”, which “have forced them to change their program”.

The most there was were a few words from Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, at the G-7 summit in Italy in which he limited himself to insisting – this time giving it an official seal – on the idea that the US had not participated in the attack and to urge Tehran and Tel Aviv to stop the escalation of attacks and counterattacks. However, the US does not seem concerned that Iran will respond to the bombing.

The objective seems to be that the crisis is forgotten as soon as possible and that no one thinks about it again, lest the next time the attacks be less about theater and more about real war.. The Biden Administration knew about the attack in advance. Israel had warned him on Thursday that the bombing of Iran would take place in the next 24 or 48 hours, according to US media.. Tel Aviv had also assured Washington that Iran's nuclear facilities would not be targeted by the bombing, according to NBC television.. Isfahan has key facilities in Iran's nuclear program. Washington has also confirmed that its Armed Forces did not participate in the attack.

US President Joe Biden himself had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu not to attack Iran. The political website Axios reported this week that Biden told Netanyahu that “you've had a victory, take it.”. The “victory” that Bien spoke of was the shooting down of the vast majority of the approximately 320 missiles and drones launched by Iran against Israel on the night of Saturday to Sunday.. A considerable part of these mills – more than a third of the total – were shot down by the Armed Forces of the US, France, the United Kingdom and Jordan.. The rest were shot down by Israel's air defense, at a cost ranging between 520 and 1,225 million euros, according to the Jewish State's own estimates by analysts..

Israel, however, decided to attack. According to the US media, the initial date of the attack was going to be Monday, but, under pressure from Washington, Netanyahu decided, literally at the last moment, to wait.. Likewise, the US forced Netanyahu to reduce the dimensions of military action. Washington appears to have been content that the bombing was little more than symbolic, just as the one Iran launched against Israel on Saturday night was.. In fact, Tehran had warned the air traffic authorities of Saudi Arabia and other countries the day before that there would be a significant number of unregistered and unidentified aircraft flying over the region in the following days.. It was a subtle way of saying that military devices were going to take off from Iran.

That Israel carried out the attack despite US opposition highlights the incredible influence of Tel Aviv over Washington. The United States gives military aid to Israel equivalent to almost four times what the USSR gave to Cuba during the Cold War (adjusting prices for inflation). According to the Bloomberg news agency, the US also pays a third of the Gaza war. Even weapons systems that are entirely Israeli and over which Tel Aviv has complete control have been paid for by the American taxpayer.. This is the case of the 'Iron Dome' anti-missile system, which Tel Aviv has repeatedly refused to deliver to Ukraine – despite the fact that the president of that country, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish – and which will be one of the large beneficiaries of the aid package of 14 billion dollars (more than 13 billion euros) for Israel that the US Government is going to approve this Saturday.

The US has air defense systems in all the countries that Israel has had to fly over to attack Iran, with the exception of Syria – aligned with Russia – and Saudi Arabia, as well as in the Persian Gulf. The air defense systems of these countries have also had to detect Israel's aircraft.

For the Government of Joe Biden, the attack is another failure in the cascade of disasters that has occurred in the Middle East since the terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.. Washington has failed to try to get Israel to carry out a targeted offensive against terrorist targets in Gaza, instead of carrying out a conventional attack that has devastated much of the territory.

Nor has it managed to get Tel Aviv to allow large amounts of humanitarian aid into the enclave, which is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.. Washington has informed Iran through diplomatic channels that it did not participate in any way – neither by providing information nor with any type of support – in the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, in which eight members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and which has unleashed this wave of attacks and counterattacks.

In the White House and in the Democratic Party, there are those who believe that Benjamin Netanyahu – whose bad personal relationship with the American president is as notorious as his closeness to 'Trumpism' and, especially, his friendship with the former president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner – is carrying out an escalation in the conflict to drag the US into the war. On the part of the Republican Party, however, there are no fissures in support for Israel, which are summarized in the phrase of former President Donald Trump, who has urged Tel Aviv to “finish the job” in Gaza. Kushner has criticized the fact that a beach tourism infrastructure has not been created in Gaza under the Hamas administration, which was a clear reference to the Palestinian economic failure, although there have been those who have taken it as a covert proposal for Israel to annex the coast of the region and expel the Palestinians from it.