Posted on 04/14/2024 5:45:37 PM PDT by McGruff
Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be "within certain limits."
The Turkish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had spoken to both his US and Iranian counterparts in the past week to discuss the planned Iranian operation, adding Ankara had been made aware of possible developments.
Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Fidan to make clear that escalation in the Middle East was not in anyone's interest.
"Iran informed us in advance of what would happen. Possible developments also came up during the meeting with Blinken, and they (the US) conveyed to Iran through us that this reaction must be within certain limits," the source said.
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Why the hell was turkey ever allowed in to NATO?
With friends like Turkey, who the hell needs enemies. And Biden is importing them into America.
After the US killed or bombed some Iranian officials, some former intel guy said on a news program that the US contacted Iran with a save face plan and offered Iran an abandoned US military no longer being used to bomb and show the world that they retaliated against America.
Turkey has a very strategic location. We aren’t friends with them because we like them.
Exactly! Sometimes after a long period of time we tend to forget the reason why we had done certain things
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