Iran Threatens to Drag the U.S. Into Regional Holy War

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after which he announced that President Joe Biden would visit Israel.
51% : "Speaking to a group of students in Tehran, Khamenei said: "We must respond, we must react to what is happening in Gaza."
48% : Iran, which supports Hamas in its rule of Gaza, has claimed that providing help to people in the besieged enclave is its foreign policy priority, but President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday that militant groups make their own decisions about how to respond to the crisis.
44% : On Tuesday Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson with the United Nations human rights office, said the siege coupled with an Israeli evacuation order to move south -- affecting around 1.1 million people -- could be in "breach of international law.
35% : They will join other American military assets sent to the region in an apparent effort to stop Israel's conflict spreading amid heightened tensions with Iran and cross-border attacks against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
33% : Shamdasani said the "appalling reports" must be independently investigated, "as must all allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law."

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