'All parties must take steps to ease tensions. Escalation is not in anyone's interests. It will only lead to more conflict, more violence, more insecurity.' US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says
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Blinken said Washington was “engaged in intense diplomacy, pretty much around the clock” to help calm tensions amid fears Iran is preparing a retaliatory strike against Israel. Iran has blamed Israel and said it will “punish” it; Israeli officials have not claimed responsibility for the killing. Iran backs Hamas, which is at war with Israel in Gaza, and also the Lebanese group Hezbollah, whose senior military commander Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut last week.
Biden and Harris were also updated on U.S. efforts to support Israel militarily if it is attacked and diplomatic efforts to “de-escalate regional tension” and reach a ceasefire and hostage-release deal in Gaza. Miller, speaking at a press briefing, did not say definitively whether or not Washington’s messages have been disseminated to Iran or through which channel.
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