{"id":2221430,"date":"2024-04-15T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denies-reports-iran-tailored-strikes-against-israel-to-fail\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:58:52","slug":"white-house-denies-reports-iran-tailored-strikes-against-israel-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denies-reports-iran-tailored-strikes-against-israel-to-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"White House refutes claims that Iran deliberately planned strikes against Israel to be unsuccessful"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-denies-reports-iran-tailored-strikes-against-israel-to-fail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2221430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>National Security Council spokesman John Kirby dismissed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-the-bidens-got-rich-while-americans-got-robbed\/\" title=\"Donald Trump: 'The Bidens Got Rich While Americans Got Robbed'\">claims<\/a> that Iran deliberately planned its\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-launches-probe-into-deadly-erbil-rocket-attack\/\" title=\"State Dept. launches probe into deadly Erbil rocket attack\">recent attacks<\/a> on\u2063 Israel to\u200d be unsuccessful. Kirby \u200cstated that Israel and the United States managed to \u2063intercept over\u200c 99% of the drones\u200d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-tests-israels-iron-dome-defense-missiles-in-guam\/\" title=\"US Tests Israel\u2019s Iron Dome Defense Missiles in Guam\">missiles launched<\/a> by Iran, labeling the incident as a &#8220;spectacular and embarrassing failure&#8221; for Iran. He refuted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">reports<\/a> suggesting Iran provided early warnings \u2064to Israel, emphasizing \u200bthat such claims were false.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>National Security Council spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-kirby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Kirby<\/a> heartily disputed reports Monday suggesting that Iran had planned its weekend strikes against Israel to \u201cfail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israel<\/a> and the United States shot down more than 99% of the roughly 300 drones and missiles Iran launched against Israel on Saturday, according to Kirby, calling the attack a \u201cspectacular and embarrassing failure\u201d for <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve also seen reports say that they provided early warning to help Israel prepare its defenses and limit any potential damage,\u201d he continued during Monday\u2019s White House press briefing. \u201cAll of this is categorically false. To coin the phrase from the president \u2014 steal a phrase from the president \u2014 it\u2019s malarkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby claimed that Iran intended to cause \u201csignificant destruction and casualties\u201d and denied receiving any advance notice from Iran on the \u201ctime frame\u201d of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States had no messages from Iran, or anybody else, as I said in my opening statement, that offered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-state-legislature-passes-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-bill\/\" title=\"Texas state legislature passes fetal heartbeat abortion bill\">specific time frame<\/a>, or a specific set of targets, or the types of weapons that they were going to fire,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iranian-notice-attack-may-have-dampened-escalation-risks-2024-04-14\/#:~:text=Iraqi%2C%20Turkish%20and%20Jordanian%20officials,casualties%2https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iranian-notice-attack-may-have-dampened-escalation-risks-2024-04-14\/#:~:text=Iraqi%2C%20Turkish%20and%20Jordanian%20officials,casualties%20and%20escalating%20the%20conflict.0and%20escalating%20the%20conflict.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reports\">reports<\/a> over the weekend claimed that Iran had passed along such a timeline to U.S. allies, including Turkey, who had then alerted the Pentagon of Iran\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt kind of boggles my mind that anybody would believe that Iran would pick up the phone and tell the United States,\u201d Kirby said, adding, \u201cYou can\u2019t throw that much metal in the air, which they did in the time frame in which they did, and convince anybody realistically you weren\u2019t trying to cause casualties and you weren\u2019t calling trying to cause damage. They absolutely were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch Monday\u2019s briefing in full below.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id=\"9pRbB53RgRE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pRbB53RgRE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Council spokesman John Kirby vehemently denied reports on Monday alleging that Iran intentionally orchestrated its recent attacks on Israel to be ineffective. Kirby stated that Israel and the US successfully intercepted over 99% of the approximately 300 drones and missiles launched by Iran on Saturday, labeling the assault as both &#8220;spectacular&#8221; and &#8220;embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2221431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24106599267665.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24106599267665.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}