State Dept.: No 'Green Light' for Israel to Attack Iran

State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly denied Monday that the United States has given Israel the go-ahead to decide whether to strike Iran. Vice President Biden's remarks that Israel can decide for itself whether to strike Iran's nuclear installations was not a "green light" to go for it, a State Department spokesman said Monday. "I certainly would not want to give a green light to any kind of military action," Spokesman Ian Kelly said. "But ... Israel is a sovereign country and we're not going to dictate its actions." Kelly was responding after Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday on that the United States "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do." "Israel can determine for itself -- it's a sovereign nation -- what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone... [read full story]                    

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