Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that the United States had damaged the ongoing international diplomatic effort to end the war, after more US strikes on targets in southern Iran.
“Unfortunately, the United States is damaging this diplomatic process through the contradictory messages it sends, its repeated shifts in positions and demands, and, worst of all, through repeated violations of the ceasefire,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said, in a video message carried by Iranian media.
“Any diplomatic process is damaged by the use of force and by resorting to unlawful actions on the ground.”
Meanwhile, Russia urged “restraint” in the Iran war after Washington and Tehran traded new strikes in the worst escalation since their April 8 ceasefire.
“We are extremely concerned about the new round of US-Iranian armed confrontation, which began with the unprovoked US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran. We call on both sides to exercise restraint and to immediately cease military attacks,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters. (AFP)
