How Biden pushed Israel to calibrate its strikes on Iran

Hours after Iranian missiles rained down on Israel on Oct. 1, President Joe Biden's administration sent an urgent message to Israel: Take a breath. Israel, Washington argued, owned the clock and had time to decide on how to best respond to an Iranian strike that the United States assessed could have killed thousands if Israel, with U.S. military support, hadn't been able to defeat the attack from its long-time foe. Such a massive Iranian attack had the potential to trigger a sharp, rapid Israeli