The US did not support Israel's strike on Iranian territory, which Tel Aviv carried out on Friday in response to Tehran's large-scale air attack last weekend.
This was reported by a high-ranking American official in an interview with CNN, "European Truth" writes.
According to the official, Israel has informed the US that it will respond to Iran in the coming days. "We did not approve the response," the official said.
Israel was considering how to respond to Iran's strikes with missiles and drones, the absolute majority of which were intercepted.
Israel struck Iranian territory on Friday local time. According to local media, three explosions rang out near the towers of a military base in the northwestern Iranian province of Isfahan, where nuclear facilities are located. Iranian television claims to have shot down three drones.
According to Iranian media, Iran's air defense systems have been activated in several regions as a precaution against potential threats from the air. The state news agency IRNA said that after the activation of the air defense system, "no large-scale strikes or explosions caused by any aerial threat have been recorded so far."
Iran's state-run Tasnim News reported that nuclear facilities in Isfahan province were "fully secured".
The attack came hours after Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that if Israel took further military action against it, Iran's military response would be "immediate and at the maximum level."
Before Israel struck on Friday, the US expected it would not attack civilian or nuclear targets, another senior US official told the channel. The range of targets "was not precisely defined, but nuclear and civilian objects clearly did not fall into this category," the official said.
The US urged Israel not to respond to last weekend's Iranian attack, which President Joe Biden called "unprecedented".
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