The Biden administration is also, in public and through back-channels, warning Iran against escalating the situation. Iran supports the so-called Axis of Resistance, an alliance that includes Hezbollah – its most important force – as well as militias in Iraq, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas.
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