UN chief tells emergency security council meeting Middle East is ‘on the brink’ as US warns Israel it will not take part in counterattack against Iran
UN chief António Guterres delivers opening remarks at a security council meeting in New York on Sunday after Iran’s reprisal attack on Israel involving about 300 missiles and drones. Guterres said that ‘now is the time to defuse and de-escalate’.UN chief António Guterres delivers opening remarks at a security council meeting in New York on Sunday after Iran’s reprisal attack on Israel involving about 300 missiles and drones.
. A senior Biden administration official said Washington aimed to deescalate regional tensions. “We do not want a broader regional conflict.” signalling on Sunday night it will not immediately act alone against Tehran but insisting its forces remain on high alert and that the leadership has approved both “offensive and defensive action”. Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet, said ahead of it meeting that Israel would exact a price from Iran when the time was right.
, Antony Blinken, held separate calls with his Jordanian, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian and Turkish counterparts and, according to the US state department, while emphasising the US would continue to support Israel’s defence., the Islamic Republic’s first ever direct attack on the Jewish state and made in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on 1 April that killed seven members of the Revolutionary Guards including two generals.
and “had no choice” but to act. Tehran warned earlier that it would strike again with greater force if Israel or the US retaliated.before it’s too late” and to “condemn Iran for their terror”,Bisher Khasawneh told the Jordanian cabinet: “The army will respond to anything that will jeopardise the security and safety of the kingdom and the sanctity of its airspace and territory … with all the available means.” Jordan also summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest againstThe Israeli military said.
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