de-escalation. that is the message from the us secretary of state, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. >> now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the united states was not involved in any offensive operations. >> as he also said, the focus for the united states and g7 remains de-escalation you saw israel on the receiving end of an unprecedented attack. but our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so de-escalating tensions avoiding conflict. and that remains our focus so israel's strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. >> the early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. a source in the region saying
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