US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that US officials had spent the last 36 hours “coordinating a diplomatic response to try to avoid escalation” following Iran's attack on Israel last weekend.
“Strength and wisdom need to be different sides of the same coin,” Blinken said, in a seemingly implicit plea for Israel to exercise restraint in its response. Blinken said he has been in contact with authorities in the region “and will continue to do so in the coming hours and days.”
“We do not seek escalation, but we will continue to support the defense of Israel and protect our people in the region,” Blinken said in his first public comments on the attack this weekend.
As reported by CNN President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would not participate in offensive moves against Iran.
But he added that “what this weekend demonstrated is that Israel did not and does not need to defend itself when it is the victim of aggression, the victim of an attack.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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