In a written message to Washington, Iran “warned the US not to get dragged into Netanyahu’s trap”, Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, wrote on X, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US should “step aside so that you don’t get hit”.
“In response, the US asked Iran not to hit American targets,” Jamshidi said. ⠀
NBC, citing two unnamed United States officials, said US President Joe Biden’s administration is concerned any attack could be inside Israel, specifically against “military or intelligence targets, rather than civilians”.
They’re worried that Iran might attack a legitimate target rather than responding to state terrorism with more state terrorism?
Either this is a misquote or that’s really fucked up!
You’ll notice only the last seven words are actually a quote. Almost certainly this is a mashup of expressing concern that Iran will attack Israel and a statement that US intelligence thinks Iran would choose military targets.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna146627
Thanks for the original source. One wonders what the South China Morning Post’s angle might be to incorrectly phrase it like they did
Definitely intentional.
How did they incorrectly phrase it?
NBC
SCMP
The meaning is the same…
The SCMP version reads like they wouldn’t care if civilians were the target. The NBC version just states what they expect to be the target, the concerns are about Iran getting directly involved.
Meaning might be same, but what it makes people think about is what matters. Ultimately “truth” will be what people think it is and not how things actually are.
Much harder to spread israeli propaganda if attacks don’t target civilians I suppose.
Yeah, I had the exact same thought…
Seems unlikely to be very accurate wording. As its at best 3rd party interpretation. At worst rephrased to incite anger amongst readers.
Concerned or worry are hardly provable definitions and clearly not actual quotes from the president given the context of the paragraph.
I think it’s more about reassurance that they are not targeting civilians.
That’s how I read it anyway
“Only we’re allowed to kill civilians indiscriminately.” -zionists and their supporters
Now it says:In response, the US asked Iran not to hit American targets,” Jamshidi said.What you’ve quoted currently isn’t in the article.Edit: full article was blocked by adblocker.
Yeah it’s elsewhere in the article:
Weird. I only see that in the archived link. This is what I see when I go to the direct link.
That’s all…? Is it paywalled ore something?
Found the culprit. Full article tracker/button was blocked by AdGuard.
Quick guess could = should, easy auto correct tweak but makes things make a bit more sense, at least if you cleanup up the surrounding a bit. AI written gibberish?