Iran rejects Western calls to refrain from attack on Israel

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Iran rejects Western calls to refrain from ******* on *******

Iran has dismissed calls from the *** and other Western countries to refrain from retaliation against ******* for the ******** of ****** leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month.

Amid a flurry of international diplomacy to de-escalate tensions, *** Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to “stand down its ongoing threats of a military *******” in a rare telephone conversation on Monday.

But Mr Pezeshkian said retaliation was a “way to stop ******” and Iran’s “legal right”, according to Iranian state media.

*******, which did not say it was involved in Haniyeh’s **************, has meanwhile put its military on its highest alert level.

The US has warned that it is preparing for “a significant set of attacks” by Iran or its proxies as soon as this week, and has built up its military presence in the Middle East to help defend *******.

The powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon is also threatening to retaliate over *******’s ******** of one of its top commanders in an air strike in Beirut.

On Monday evening, the leaders of the ***, France and Germany issued a ****** statement urging Iran and its allies to “refrain from attacks that would further escalate regional tensions”.

“They will bear responsibility for actions that jeopardise this opportunity for peace and stability,” Sir Keir, President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

Later, the British prime minister also expressed his deep concerns directly to Iran’s president by telephone – the first such call since March 2021.

Sir Kier told Mr Pezeshkian that “there was a serious risk of miscalculation and now was the time for calm and careful consideration”,

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“He called on Iran to refrain from attacking *******, adding that war was not in anyone’s interests,” it added.

On Tuesday morning,

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that Mr Pezeshkian had told Sir Kier that Western countries’ support for ******* had encouraged it to “continue atrocities” and threatened peace and security.

“Pezeshkian stated that from the point of view of the Islamic Republic of Iran, war in any part of the world is not in the interest of any country, emphasizing that a punitive response to an aggressor is a legal right of states and a way to stop ****** and aggression,” Irna added.

The Iranian foreign ministry separately rejected the call for restraint from London, Paris and Berlin.

“Such demands are void of political logic, in complete contradiction to the principles and rules of international law, and excessive,” spokesman Nasser Kaanani said.

The ******** military said on Monday that it was taking Iran’s statements seriously.

“We are prepared at peak readiness in offence and defence, and we will act according to the directives of the government,” spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told a briefing.

An ******** government spokesman meanwhile warned Iran and its allies that ******* would “exact a heavy price for any aggression against us from any arena”.

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters: “We share the same concerns and expectations that our ******** counterparts have with respect to potential timing here. [It] could be this week.”

“It is difficult to ascertain at this particular time if there is an ******* by Iran and or its proxies, what that could look like, but we have to be prepared,” he added.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has dispatched a second aircraft carrier strike group as well as a ballistic missile submarine to the Middle East to reinforce what the Pentagon said was the “******* States’ commitment to taking every possible step to defend *******”.

The US believes that a new deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of ******** hostages would be the best way to calm tensions in the region, and has called for talks to resume on Thursday.

******* has said it will send a team of negotiators to finalise a deal, while ****** has indicated an agreement in principle to participate despite the ******** of its leader.

****** said on Sunday that any deal must be based on where talks were a month and a half ago, rather than any new rounds of negotiations.

******* launched a military campaign in Gaza to ******** ****** in response to an unprecedented ******* on southern ******* on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were ******* and 251 were taken ********.

More than 39,920 people have been ******* in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s ******-run health ministry.

Hundreds of people have also been ******* in the almost daily exchanges of ***** between Hezbollah and the ******** military across the *******-Lebanon border since the day after the start of the conflict.

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