James Jeffrey: “we would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion or Turkish military action against…”

We would much prefer to pursue the positive agenda of deescalation and political reinvigoration I just described, but we are prepared to maintain our policy of pressure...

We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion.

Our bottom line is this conflict must end and it must end now.

There is no doubt, including in the White House, that Iran is an extremely dangerous, expansionist force in the region.