US cuts Israel loose or tries to buy insurance?
Ynet / Ynet
03-Sep-2012 (one comment)


The United States has indirectly informed Iran, via two European nations, that it would not back an Israeli strike against the country's nuclear facilities, as long as Tehran refrains from attacking American interests in the Persian Gulf, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday.

 

According to the report, Washington used covert back-channels in Europe to clarify that the US does not intend to back Israel in a strike that may spark a regional conflict.

 

n return, Washington reportedly expects Iran to steer clear of strategic American assets in the Persian Gulf, such as military bases and aircraft carriers. 

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MaryamJoon

US cuts Israel loose or tries to buy insurance?

by MaryamJoon on Mon Sep 03, 2012 04:58 AM PDT

In US wargames exercises to simulate what would happen in the Persian Gulf in the event of a war, with Iran's current technology, the US lost 16 vessels. It's 2012 not 1982. 

Has the US cut Israel loose?  I doubt it.  If things start going badly for Israel it will likely intervene, but try to bluff Iran into avoiding attacking back for as long as possible.  



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