http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-to-iran-in-case-of-israeli-strike-dont-fire-on-our-bases/
The United States has no intention of joining in a preemptive Israeli
strike on Iran and expects the Islamic Republic to refrain from
attacking US targets in the case of such an attack, senior Washington
officials told their Iranian counterparts, according to a report in Yedioth Ahronoth on Monday.
In recent days, senior administration officials reportedly sent messages
to Iran, through diplomats from two European states, addressing the
possibility that Israel would launch a unilateral strike and
establishing that the US expects Iran to not draw it into a conflict by
firing on American army bases and aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf.
Highlighting the disagreement between the two countries on the use of force were reports of a scaling-down of joint US-Israel missile defense exercises
in October, and public comments by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs
of Staff Martin Dempsey, who said last Thursday that he did not want to
be “complicit” in an Israeli attack on Iran.
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