Middle East crisis live: US says it is ‘not looking for war with Iran’ after American troops killed in Jordan drone attack newshub

Middle East crisis live: US says it is ‘not looking for war with Iran’ after American troops killed in Jordan drone attack

‘We are not looking for a war with Iran’

John Kirby, in an interview on NBC television in the US, has said that the White House is not seeking a war with Iran or regional escalation.The National Security Council spokesperson said:

We are not looking for a war with Iran. We are not looking to escalate the conflict in the region. Obviously, these attacks keep coming. We’ll keep looking at the options. I can’t speak for the Supreme Leader or what he wants or he doesn’t want. I can tell you what we want. What we want is a stable, secure, prosperous Middle East, and we want these attacks to stop.

On the accusations made by Israel against 12 staff at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which has led to the US pulling funding for the agency, Kirby said

It’s important to remember that UNRWA does important work across the region, certainly in Gaza. They have helped save thousands of lives, and we shouldn’t impugn the good work of a whole agency because of the terrible, just terrible allegations lobbied against just a small number of their employees. So I think we have decision points that we’re going to have to make going forward here, but I don’t want to get ahead of the investigation and what it’s going to find.

Source: The Guardian