Kirby says US to pay 'close attention' to Nasrallah speech
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said that the U.S. is monitoring the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border “very, very closely.”
“One of the reasons why the President sent an extra carrier strike group into the region and parked one in the Eastern Med is to make sure we send a strong message to any actor, including Hezbollah, who may want to widen the conflict: They ought not to do it. We take seriously, as I said earlier, our national security interests in the region,” Kirby added in response to a reporter’s question during a daily press briefing.
As for Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s expected speech on Friday and whether he might “declare war on Israel,” Kirby answered: “Now, Nasrallah can say what he wants to say. And we’ll certainly be paying close attention to it. But our message is the same to him, to them, to any other actor in the region.”
Source: Naharnet
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