Prime minister also seeks to assure allies Israel’s response to Iran will be measured, as officials urge him to focus on ceasefire deal
The UK foreign secretary, David Cameron , accepted on Wednesday before meeting Netanyahu that some kind of Israeli action against Iran was now inevitable.The UK foreign secretary, David Cameron , accepted on Wednesday before meeting Netanyahu that some kind of Israeli action against Iran was now inevitable.
The US faces a dilemma since so far it has said it has not seen any credible Israeli plan to oust Hamas that would not lead to a humanitarian disaster. But the US language ruling out an attack on Rafah has gradually been weakening. Talks toward a ceasefire had stalled, he said. He said his country was undertaking “a complete re-evaluation of its role because there has been damage to Qatar”.
One source said the difficulty was that Hamas did not have control of the number of living hostages needed to secure the number of Palestinian prisoners it wants. The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said: “We are on the edge of a war in the Middle East which will be sending shockwaves to the rest of the world.”
The Treasury said it was also designating five companies in multiple jurisdictions providing component materials for steel production to Iran’s Khouzestan Steel Company , one of Iran’s largest steel producers, or buying KSC’s finished steel products.
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