“We need to avoid further regional escalation and urge all sides to show restraint. Iran should not respond,” Starmer said at the Commonwealth summit in Samoa.
Saudi Arabia condemned the attacks against Iran, the Saudi Press Agency said on Saturday, against the backdrop of improved relations between Riyadh and Tehran. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its condemnation and denunciation of the military targeting of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is a violation of its sovereignty and a violation of international laws and norms,” Riyadh said.
It called on the parties to “exercise the utmost restraint and reduce escalation.”
The United Arab Emirates “strongly condemned” the strikes against Iran, and expressed “deep concern” over the threat of escalation in the Mideast conflict, according to a statement of the country’s foreign ministry.
Israeli military officials said more than 20 Iranian military facilities were struck in three waves of airstrikes early Saturday. The first explosions were reported around 2:15 a.m. local Iranian time and were heard mainly coming from the west of Tehran, according to IRNA.
Following the airstrikes, which ended just before dawn on Saturday, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement said Israeli “aircraft struck missile manufacturing facilities used to produce the missiles that Iran fired at the State of Israel.”
