PNN – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken claimed on Tuesday that Washington has informed Iran and Israel that the conflict in the Middle East should not escalate.
According to Pakistan News Network’s report from “Street Times”, The senior US official added that officials are in constant contact with their allies and partners in the region and there is a “clear consensus” that neither side should escalate the situation.
Blinken said: We have engaged in intensive diplomacy with allies and partners and have conveyed the message of non-escalation directly to Iran. We have delivered this message directly to Israel.
Blinken said Washington would continue to defend Israel against attacks, but noted that everyone in the region must understand the risks of escalation and miscalculation.
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He emphasized: More attacks only increase the risk of dangerous consequences that no one can predict and fully control.
Blinken, after meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and their Australian counterparts, also said that negotiations to achieve a ceasefire and the release of prisoners held by Hamas have reached their final stage and will end very soon.
The public relations of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced in a statement on Wednesday morning (July 31, 2024): With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and the fighters of the resistance front and the noble nation of Iran, the residence of Mr. Dr. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic resistance of Hamas in Tehran, was hit and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were killed.
In a message, Dr. Masoud Pezishkiyan, President of the Republic, wrote in response to Ismail Haniyeh’s martyrdom: The Islamic Republic of Iran will not fail to protect its territorial integrity, national sovereignty, honor and credibility, and the Zionist regime will soon see the results of its cowardly and terrorist actions.
Following the Israeli regime’s terrorist attack on Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’s political bureau, in a letter to the UN Security Council, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations announced: This terrorist regime and its supporters are responsible for these actions. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not hesitate to use its inherent right to legitimate defense, according to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, for a decisive and immediate response.
The United Nations Security Council held a meeting on July 31 to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political office in Iran, following Iran’s request, which was supported by China, Algeria and Russia as the rotating president of the United Nations Security Council.