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ANNAPOLIS – Both Iran and Israel should avoid escalating conflict, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday , in his most direct wording toward US ally Israel on the Middle East’s spiraling tensions.
This developed as Hamas named Yahya Sinwar, the man Israel says masterminded the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the Gaza war, as its new political chief following last week’s killing of his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh. President Joe Biden has hinted at frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the assassination, which came just as he hoped to make progress in talks to reach a ceasefire in the 10-month Gaza war.
Blinken, speaking after talks with the Australian foreign and defense ministers at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland said the United States was working “intensely to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East and to prevent a spread of conflict.
“It’s urgent that everyone in the region take stock of the situation, understand the risk of miscalculation and make decisions that will calm tensions, not exacerbate them.” The Biden administration, which has sent additional forces into the Middle East, had been hoping to focus not on an escalating crisis but on a ceasefire plan for Gaza.
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