The Biden administration had been hoping to learn more from Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, whose visit to the U.S. was postponed at the last minute.
Jerusalem is not sharing with Washington its plans to respond to Tehran’s missile offensive against Israel last week, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
According to the report, Biden administration officials are frustrated at the lack of details conveyed to them after the White House publicly expressed its opposition to strikes on the Islamic Republic’s oil fields and nuclear facilities.
The administration has been caught off guard multiple times during Israel’s year-long war against Tehran’s terror proxies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Journal reported, including by the recent assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
President Joe Biden has emphasized throughout the war that the United States wants to avoid an escalation into a regional war.