Iran Press/ America: "I don’t think that there is any reason that it needs to," he said, speaking to an NBC host.
"The [US] president does not believe that it needs to move in that direction," he said, commenting on the host’s question about a full-scale war between Iran and Israel.
Kirby also noted that the US does not want an escalation and does not seek a war with Iran at a greater scale.
"What Israel demonstrated last night was an incredible ability to defend itself, just their own military superiority was quite remarkable, […] and the damage was extraordinary light," he said.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a retaliatory strike on multiple locations in Israel, in response to an Israeli terrorist attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria on 1 April 2024.
On 1 April 2024, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing 16 people, including a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, a senior commander along with six other IRGC officers. Six Syrian civilians also were killed in the attack.
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