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Tuesday, August 13, 2024
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024
US envoy says Turkey seems confident Israel-Iran-Hezbollah tensions won’t escalate
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS Ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake says Ankara appears to believe the current Israel-Iran-Hezbollah tensions won’t devolve into an all-out war.
“They’re doing what they can to make sure that it doesn’t escalate,” he says of Washington’s Turkish interlocutors, adding that they “seem more confident than we are that it won’t escalate.”
“We ask all of our allies that have any relations with Iran to prevail on them to deescalate, and that includes Turkey,” Flake says at a round-table with journalists in Istanbul as he comes to the end of his posting in Turkey.
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