Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel
tensions and gave iran away it out so that it didn t have to follow through with it stressed its threats to strike back yeah. israel said it carried out a minimum response sort of geared towards to military basis. i m curious beth, what you think of israel s response when it comes to what they re saying now, after this attack well, i think this puts everybody in a much better position. we re all breathing a sigh of relief but looking ahead, i think there are two factors here. one is that i think israel showing that they were threading a needle to try to deter iran, to try to put this reestablish deterrence. but at the same time, keep both the united states and very importantly, the arab countries that supported herded them both overtly like jordan, but also through radar sharing kind of