(Adnkronos) – Italy has called on Iran not to retaliate to Israel’s strikes on military targets at the weekend and to make Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis and its proxies in Syria cease attacking the Jewish State.
‘I think it is right that Iran, in the interest of peace, should not carry out other acts,” Tajani said Monday on the sidelines of an industrialists’ assembly in Turin.
Tajani referred to the large-scale attack Tehran launched against Israel on 1 October, prompting Saturday’s retaliatory wave of strikes by Israel’s Defence Forces (IDF).
“Above all, we ask Iran to get Hezbollah, the Houthis and their supporters in Syria – their proxies – to cease their attacks on Israel,” Tajani said.
The escalating Middle East conflict is causing concern “in general,” Tajani said.
“Everyone must make a contribution to peace, including Israel, and a ceasefire must be reached,” Tajani underlined.
Italy’s government has invited Iran not to make another counter-attack, Tajani said. Iran made its first direct attack on Israel in April, when it launched around 300 missiles and drones in revenge for a 1 April Israeli air strike on an Iranian embassy compound in Syria that killed several top commanders from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Israel responded to Israel’s 1 April attack with a “limited” strike on a missile defence system in the Iranian region of Isfahan, which Iran chose not to respond to.
