President Joe Biden is meeting with his national security team and monitoring the situation in the Middle East as Iran launched an attack against Israel. Tensions are at their highest since the Israel-Hamas war began six months ago after a suspected Israeli strike this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria killed 12 people, including two senior Iranian generals. Iran has promised to retaliate against Israel. U.S. and Israeli officials had been bracing for an attack as soon as this weekend, raising concerns about the conflict escalating into a wider regional war. Biden cut short a weekend stay at his Delaware beach home to return to the White House.
