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"The new Iranian administration did not come to Vienna with constructive proposals," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says at her briefing, after diplomats paused international talks aimed at the revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. SOUNDBITE
Negotiators are still having constructive conversations at the Iran nuclear talks and have not reached a deadline yet, says White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
The Group of Seven industrialised nations is "committed to de-escalating" tensions in the Middle East in the wake of reports that Israel launched strikes on Iran in retaliation for its unprecedented attack on Israeli soil Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says. "We're committed to Israel's security. We're also committed to de-escalating, to trying to bring this tension to a close," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri. SOUNDBITE
The White House says it had "warned" Iran after President Joe Biden said Tehran was threatening a significant attack on Israel over a strike that destroyed an Iranian consulate building in Damascus. SOUNDBITE
The United States had no involvement in an airstrike on Iran's consular annex building in the Syrian capital Damascus that Tehran blamed on Israel, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells journalists. SOUNDBITE
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