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Secretary of State Blinken: Regarding Iran, Israel Will Make Its Own Decisions about Its National Security
(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday: "We're now in a place where we're not talking about a nuclear agreement. We are very clearly making it known to them [Iran] that they need to take actions to de-escalate, not escalate, the tensions that exist in our relationship across a whole variety of fronts. We'll look to see if they do that....We are working across a whole series of lines of effort to push back on them, to make sure we have a strong deterrent." "We are in very close contact and coordination with Israel, just as we are, actually, with a number of other countries that are deeply concerned about Iran's nuclear program as well as its many other destabilizing activities in the region. Countries have to make their own decisions about their national interests, their national security. We obviously share views, share information, seek to work together. But fundamentally, Israel will make its decisions about its national security."