The United States, US, President, Joe Biden, has urged Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to carefully consider any Israeli retaliatory strike against Iran and the consequences this might have.
In a telephone conversation between both leaders, Biden made it “very clear’’ to Netanyahu that he needed to “think carefully and strategically about risks of escalation'. A senior US government official said this in Washington on Sunday evening. The official was quoted by NAN as saying: “This is something that is constantly being discussed with the Israel i side and other allies, Biden also made it clear that the US would help Israel to defend itself. ' Israel had made it clear to the U.
Biden and fellow leaders of the seven leading democratic industrialised countries discussed the crisis and condemned the large-scale attack in the strongest possible terms. “We don’t want to see this escalate. We are not looking for a major war with Iran,’’ John Kirby, communications director of the U.S. government’s National Security Council, said. He added that the U.S. president had been clear he was not seeking war with Iran. The U.S.
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