Iran should not respond to Israel’s attacks on its territory last weekend, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday (30).
She was answering a question from CNN after the network reported that Israel’s recent attacks will have a “definitive and painful” response that will likely come before the US presidential vote, according to a high-ranking source on Wednesday.
“Iran must not respond to Israel’s retaliation,” Jean-Pierre said, before adding that “if Iran decides to respond, however, the US will be on hand to assist Israel in its defense.”
However, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller declined to offer an assessment of what Iran “can or cannot do,” but reiterated that the US believes it “should not respond.”
Miller declined to say whether the Islamic Republic had conveyed to the US its intention to respond before November 5.
“I’m not going to talk about communications between our two governments, real or imagined. But as we have made clear publicly, and I can say that Iran knows this message very clearly, they must not continue to escalate this conflict,” he said at a press conference on Wednesday.
This content was originally published in USA says Iran should not respond to Israel’s retaliation on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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