Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

Israel has attacked part of the Iranian Foreign Ministry buildings in its aggression on Iran.Iranian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saeed Khatibzadeh said that the

Iran's strikes on Israel are self-defense and are "proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure," Iran's U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the U.