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World leaders and elder officials person called connected some Israel and Iran to locomotion backmost from the brink of all-out warfare arsenic the bitter enemies traded aggravated attacks for a second day.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed connected Saturday that Israel’s strikes connected Iranian infrastructure had acceptable its atomic programme backmost years, without providing evidence, but rejected planetary calls for restraint.
“We volition deed each tract and each people of the Ayatollahs’ regime, and what they person felt truthful acold is thing compared with what they volition beryllium handed successful the coming days,” helium said successful a video message.
During its surprise attack connected Friday, the Israeli service targeted much than 200 subject and atomic sites, sidesplitting apical Iranian service commanders, scientists and different elder officials.
Iran beardown retaliation penetrated Israel’s lauded rocket defence connected Friday nighttime and overnight into Saturday, with aerial raid sirens sounding crossed Israel. At slightest 4 radical were killed, with the Israeli subject saying Iran had fired astir 200 ballistic missiles successful 4 waves.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned connected Saturday of a “more terrible and almighty response” if Israel continued to strike.
In airy of the escalation, satellite leaders person spoken to Iranian and Israeli apical officials, fearing a imaginable determination war.
Here is what immoderate countries person said:
US/Russia
The United States President Donald Trump says helium spoke to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin astir the conflicts successful the Middle East and Ukraine. “He feels, arsenic bash I, this warfare successful Israel-Iran should end, to which I explained, his warfare should besides end,” Trump wrote successful a societal media post.
Earlier, apical Kremlin adjutant Yuri Ushakov told reporters Putin spoke to Trump and condemned Israel’s attacks connected Iran. Putin “expressed superior interest astir a imaginable escalation of the conflict, which would person unpredictable consequences for the full concern successful the Middle East”, Ushakov said,
According to Ushakov, Trump described the existent events successful the Middle East arsenic “very alarming”.
The 2 leaders did not regularisation retired a instrumentality to the negotiating meetings connected Iran’s atomic programme, Ushakov said.
Turkiye
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Iranian president that Israel was looking to “drag the full portion into the fire,” according to a connection from the Turkish presidency. Erdogan besides told Pezeshkian that Israel’s attacks aimed to divert attraction from the genocide successful Gaza.
Erdogan told Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Israel needed “to beryllium stopped”, calling it “the main menace to stableness and information successful the region”. The contented of Iran’s atomic programme “can lone beryllium resolved done negotiations”, helium added. The Turkish person besides spoke with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Similarly, Erdogan told Trump successful a telephone telephone that helium sees atomic negotiations arsenic the lone mode to resoluteness the conflict.
Erdogan told Trump that Turkiye supports Washington’s presumption that atomic negotiations should proceed to resoluteness the warring and that Ankara is acceptable to assistance forestall an uncontrolled escalation, a connection by his bureau said.
China
Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke to his Iranian and Israeli counterparts and made wide Beijing’s enactment for Tehran.
Wang told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that Beijing “supports Iran successful safeguarding its nationalist sovereignty, defending its morganatic rights and interests, and ensuring the information of its people”, according to a connection by the overseas ministry.
Wang told Araghchi that Israel’s actions “seriously interruption … the basal norms governing planetary relations”, adding attacks connected atomic facilities “have acceptable a unsafe precedent with perchance catastrophic consequences”.
During his speech with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Wang expressed that its onslaught connected Iran was “unacceptable”.
“Diplomatic means for the Iranian atomic issue person not been exhausted, and determination is inactive anticipation for a peaceful solution. Force cannot bring lasting peace,” Wang said, adding that Beijing was consenting to play a relation successful de-escalating the conflict.
Qatar
Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani besides spoke with Pezeshkian and reiterated Qatar’s beardown condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli onslaught targeting the territory of Iran, considering it a “blatant usurpation of Iran’s sovereignty and security, and a wide breach of the rules and principles of planetary law”.
The Qatari person besides called for a diplomatic solution to scope a lasting and broad bid successful the region.
A pistillate sits wrong her damaged location astatine an interaction tract pursuing the Israeli strikes connected Iran, successful Tehran, June 14, 2025 [Majid Asgaripour/Wana (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters ]Saudi Arabia
Pezeshkian has held a telephone telephone with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, IRNA reports. The Saudi State quality bureau confirmed the call.
“Since taking bureau arsenic president, I person sought to fortify peace, stableness and information successful the region, but the Zionist authorities has disrupted and sabotaged each country wherever we wanted to execute something,” Pezeshkian was quoted arsenic saying.
The Saudi crown prince said, “the Kingdom condemns ongoing attacks that undermine Iran’s sovereignty and security. ”
Ties betwixt Riyadh and Tehran person improved importantly since the 2 countries agreed to reconstruct diplomatic relations successful 2023 aft years of animosity.
United Kingdom
The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that the UK is moving subject assets, including combatant jets, to the Middle East for contingency enactment crossed the region.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said helium was “alarmed” by the overnight strikes “with reports of fatalities and injuries successful Israel”. “We indispensable urgently de-escalate & forestall immoderate further harm to civilians,” Lammy said connected X, adding that helium had spoken to his Iranian counterpart “to impulse calm”.
Germany
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul spoke to his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, and warned that the hazard of “further escalation is real.” “Iran’s atomic programme threatens not lone Israel, but besides Saudi Arabia and the broader stableness of the region. The countries present stock a wide goal: to forestall atomic proliferation. Germany is firmly committed to de-escalation,” helium wrote connected X.
France
President Emmanuel Macron said helium spoke to his Iranian counterpart and called for French “diplomatic facilities and nationals successful Iran and the wider portion not to beryllium targeted nether immoderate circumstances”. “I besides urged the utmost restraint to debar escalation. Iran’s atomic programme is simply a superior interest and indispensable beryllium resolved done negotiation,” Macron wrote connected X.
“I truthful invited President [Masoud] Pezeshkian to instrumentality swiftly to the negotiating array to scope an statement — the lone viable way to de-escalation … We basal acceptable to lend and to mobilise each our efforts to execute that goal,” helium added.
Vatican
Pope Leo XIV called connected Israel and Iran to amusement work and reason.
“The concern successful Iran and Israel has earnestly deteriorated astatine specified a delicate moment. I privation to forcefully renew an entreaty for work and reason,” the pope said successful a statement. “The committedness to physique a safer satellite escaped from the atomic menace indispensable beryllium pursued done a respectful gathering and sincere dialogue,” helium said.
“No 1 should ever endanger the beingness of the other,” helium added.
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