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Unlike in the aftermath of Iran’s April attack, the US is not pressing Israel to refrain from retaliation but wants Israel to carefully consider potential consequences first, the source said.
US President Joe Biden doesn’t back an Israeli retaliatory strike on Iran’s nuclear strike but has striven to build a broad international consensus for a response to the Islamic Republic’s missile strike against the Jewish state Tuesday.
“We’ll be discussing with the Israelis what they’re going to do, but all seven of us (G7 nations) agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond proportionally,” Biden told reporters before boarding Air Force One. He said he would be speaking soon with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but did not give a timeline for that call.
“Iran is way off board,” he said. “There is going to be some sanctions imposed on Iran,” he stressed.
But when asked if he would support an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Biden said, “No.”
Earlier Biden joined a conversation with G7 countries — the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom — on the Israeli-Iranian crisis as the proxy war between the two arch-foes threatened to spill over into a larger regional conflict.
“They discussed Iran’s unacceptable attack against Israel” and the need for a coordinated response, including additional sanctions on Iran, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One.Reuters contributed to this report.
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