While the military escalation continues for the fourth day this Monday, June 16 between Iran and Israel, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, June 15 that his country had “solid evidence” of support from US forces with an unprecedented attack on Friday by Israel against the Iranian territory.
Iranian representatives have already accused several times in recent days to the United States to participate in Israeli attacks. The Iranian representative at the UN Amir Saeid Iravani said significantly last Saturday that Washington’s complicity in Israeli strikes was “no doubt,” he reports. Reuters.
“Those who support this diet (Israeli note), United States in mind must understand that they are accomplices,” said Amir Saeid Iravani during the Security Council. “By supporting and allowing these crimes, they share all their responsibility for their consequences,” he said.
Washington denies any participation
For its part, the United States denies any participation in the conflict. Already on Friday, shortly after the start of the strikes, the United States had described the Israeli attack in Iran “as unilateral”.
While the president trusted Thursday at the conclusion of an agreement with Iran in Nuclear, he had launched:
“I don’t want them to intervene (because) that would do everything to the top”, suggesting that he was not aware of an upcoming attack.
The US president reaffirmed on Sunday that Washington “had nothing to do” with Israeli attacks against Iran. Donald Trump, however, opened the door to an evolution, ensuring at night it was “possible” that his country gets involved in the future in these mortal exchanges.
United States in support of Israeli defense
Referring to the conversations scheduled for the next day last Saturday with the United States in the Iranian nuclear, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, Esmaeil Baqaei, had declared “that he would not have felt participating in a dialogue with a part that is the greatest support and accomplice of the aggressor.” The conversations finally did not stay on Sunday, Iran accused Israel for having undermined them.
In fact, Israel is an ally of the United States, support that does not hesitate to claim the Hebrew State. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to “attack all the sites and objectives of the regime (Iranian)” by claiming to have the “manifest support” of Washington.
If Washington does not claim to be involved in the conflict of Iran-Israel, the United States contributes to the Israeli defense. An American official recognized last Friday with AFP that his country “helped” Israel to tear down certain Iranian missiles aimed at Israeli territory. And, in October 2024, when Iran had led an attack against Israel, the United States had helped its ally similarly.
In addition, Americans are present in the Middle East, where they have military bases and where at least 40,000 soldiers deployed.
An “unpredictable” US president
But could they get more involved in the conflict? While the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said on Monday that a construction of his diplomatic representation in Tel Aviv on Monday had been slightly damaged after Iranian strikes in the country during the night, the question arises more than ever.
Frédéric Enunord, doctor in Geopolitics, professor of Sciences Po Paris, Notes, this Monday about RMC-BFMTV, that “the United States is officially delaying the moment”, but now that a branch of the US embassy in Israel has been affected, “Americans could mount extremely unacceptable.”
“The problem is that at the head of the United States, we have a King child (note of the Donald Trump editor), it is very unpredictable,” said the geopolitologist in the process.
If the United States is excellent allies in Israel, US support will not have any cost, according to Frédéric Enunord. “Trump wants to continue supporting Israel whenever an Israeli victory, who manifests itself, is not too important because it would push the Islamic Republic of Iran perhaps in its last entrencilities and, in particular, try to break everything in the region,” he said.
A possible participation if their bases are attacked?
For Michel Fayad, political and geopolitical analyst, “the United States could intervene in two cases.” First scenario, “if their military bases are attacked”, which is, for example, possible, according to him, with the one located in Iraq, if they will ever feel helpless compared to the Israelis from a military point of view. “
“In 2020, the American consulate had to be attacked in Bassra (note of the Iraqi city editor) so that they (the Americans) kill (Qassem) Soleimani, which was the most important figure apart from the guide in Iran,” he said in our set.
Second case, the United States could intervene “if Saudi Arabia is attacked,” according to Michel Fayad, Riad being a strategic partner of Washington.
“In recent years, when there has been a thaw between Saudi and Iran Arabia, there has been a tacit agreement that the hutis were not going to attack the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, but since the beginning of this campaign, Israel has been using the Saudi sky and that is a first”, even a “total exhaust of Saudi Arabia” the analyst. ” Which potentially leads to American intervention, but this time at the request of Saudi Arabia, according to Michel Fayad.
For Marc Lavergne, director of Emeritus Research at the CNRS, a specialist in the Arab and Mediterranean world, in the event that the United States is involved in the conflict, this would raise the question of the intervention of other Western powers “for a result that is not yet inactive.”
“No one is prepared for this regime change in Tehran. Where are the opposition groups, or are the organized forces that can replace the Mulás?” He also asks with BFMTV.
Source: BFM TV
