Amid hostilities with Iran, the American military expended far more advanced interceptors to protect Israel than Israeli forces did, according to Defense Department data.
U.S. bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, Pentagon assessments show
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State Department Says US Is in Conflict With Iran ‘At the Request’ of Israel
The State Department claimed on several occasions that the US “is engaged in this conflict [with Iran] at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally, as well as in the exercise of the United States’ own inherent right of self-defense” – but it was a preemptive war of choice, not self-defense.