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 else," Biden said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" about the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear installations.
He added that what's in U.S. interests should be in Israel's interests, and suggested the United States would decide whether Israel's actions hurt U.S. goals.
"Israel has a right to determine what's in its interests, and we have a right and we will determine what's in our interests," Biden said. - FOX News Story
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