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NATO chief praises US and Israeli strikes on Iran, stresses alliance won’t be involved
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBRUSSELS, Belgium — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte praises US and Israeli military action against Iran, saying it is degrading Tehran’s ability to get its hands on nuclear and ballistic missile capability, but he says NATO itself will not be involved.
“It’s really important what the US is doing here, together with Israel, because it is taking out, degrading the capacity of Iran to get its hands on nuclear capability, the ballistic missile capability,” he tells Germany’s ARD television in Brussels.
“There are absolutely no plans whatever for NATO to get dragged into this or being part of it, other than individual allies doing what they can to enable what the Americans are doing together with Israel,” he adds.
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