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Vice President pence commented on the cyber attacks reported on Iran and why a military attack in response to down in a drone was a disproportionate war action in an interview with CBS face the nation :
MARGARET BRENNAN: CBS confirmed that the US has conducted cyber operations to hit facilities in Iran linked to missile and rocket launches. Is this retaliation for shooting down the U.S. drone?
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, Margaret, as you know we never comment on covert operations.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Has there been any retaliation for shooting down the U.S. drone?
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well as- as I said I can’t speak to that. What I can tell you is that as of tomorrow we expect the president to announce an additional round of sanctions in response to Iran’s downing of an American unmanned vehicle as well as in a very real sense in the wake of what was clearly Iran’s action in attacking two tankers in the straits. But look what- what- what the president did on Thursday was- was listen to all of his advisers and- but at the end of the day the president concluded that- that seeing the potential of a hundred and fifty people killed in an American airstrike when an unmanned American vehicle had been downed in airspace was not a proportional response. But Iran should not- Iran should not confuse American restraint with a lack of American resolve. This president’s made it clear we are going to protect American forces in the region. We’re going to protect American interests in the region and the United States of America will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday in response to Iran’s downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said , AP, Hareetz reported.
Meanwhile John Bolton was in Israel.
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton says Iran should not “mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness,” RFE reported.
Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on June 23, Bolton said no one has granted Iran a “hunting license in the Middle East.”
The comments come after U.S. President Donald Trump said he called off military strikes on several sites in Iran after a general told him 150 Iranians would be killed, saying the response would not be “proportionate” to the shooting down of an unmanned American surveillance drone by Iran.
Bolton emphasized that Trump had only “stopped the strike from going forward at this time.”
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