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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke International security correspondent

Any retaliation against Iran will be based on national interest, says Israel

Man in vest carried on a stretcher by half-a-dozen people with other rescue workers around
A man is carried from the rubble of a collapsed building after Israeli bombardment in Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images

Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said that Israel will decide alone on the form of any retaliation to Iran’s barrage of 180 missiles fired at the country earlier this month, although it would listen to advice from Washington.

The comments came after US media reported that the Israeli prime minister had given an assurance to the US president, Joe Biden, that Israel would not attack sites associated with Iran’s nuclear programme or oilfields before the US presidential election.

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