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SECURITY: US State: We Don't Want To See Any Action That Leads To Full-Blown War

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US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller has told reporters that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and members of the Biden administration, have been in contact with senior Israeli government officials to discuss what Israel's response to Iran's ballistic missile attack "will look like." 

  • Miller: “Those conversations are ongoing. And now, obviously, is one of those times where, again, at a very fraught moment, we're going to continue to pursue diplomacy and deterrence to try and prevent escalation into that full conflagration.”
  • Miller: “...we do not want to see a full-blown regional escalation. Israel has a right to respond to what happened yesterday. It was an unprecedented action by Iran to launch nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, a state on state attack, the likes of which we haven't seen.... And so Israel, of course, has a response, and we are going to continue to discuss with them what that response might look like. But we don't want to see any action that would lead to a full blown regional war.”
  • Miller also notes that the US has "made clear to Israel that the US does not want to see civilians or civilian infrastructure targeted in Lebanon."
  • Rois Kais at KAN notes on X that an Israeli airstrike reported to have killed at least three people in Damascus, Syria today may have targetted Iranian Revolutionary Guards officials: "The Saudi al-Hadth channel from its sources: elements of Iran's Revolutionary Guards stayed in the apartment that Israel attacked..."
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US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller has told reporters that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and members of the Biden administration, have been in contact with senior Israeli government officials to discuss what Israel's response to Iran's ballistic missile attack "will look like." 

  • Miller: “Those conversations are ongoing. And now, obviously, is one of those times where, again, at a very fraught moment, we're going to continue to pursue diplomacy and deterrence to try and prevent escalation into that full conflagration.”
  • Miller: “...we do not want to see a full-blown regional escalation. Israel has a right to respond to what happened yesterday. It was an unprecedented action by Iran to launch nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, a state on state attack, the likes of which we haven't seen.... And so Israel, of course, has a response, and we are going to continue to discuss with them what that response might look like. But we don't want to see any action that would lead to a full blown regional war.”
  • Miller also notes that the US has "made clear to Israel that the US does not want to see civilians or civilian infrastructure targeted in Lebanon."
  • Rois Kais at KAN notes on X that an Israeli airstrike reported to have killed at least three people in Damascus, Syria today may have targetted Iranian Revolutionary Guards officials: "The Saudi al-Hadth channel from its sources: elements of Iran's Revolutionary Guards stayed in the apartment that Israel attacked..."