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SvennoJ on 12 August 2024
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Biden, European leaders tell Iran to ‘stand down’: Statement

US President Joe Biden and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement urging Iran to “stand down” its threats of a retaliatory attack on Israel.

“We called on Iran to stand down its ongoing threats of a military attack against Israel and discussed the serious consequences for regional security should such an attack take place,” the leaders said after speaking together by phone.

The call comes at a time when Iran and Hezbollah are expected to hit targets in Israel in response to the assassination of a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.

Instead of holding Israel responsible for the assassinations and attack on Iran, all the West will do is threaten Iran some more. What would the US do if Netanyahu got assassinated on US soil... Stand down? The US wouldn't even wait for the UNSC to do anything.

If you continuously ignore international law, prepare to face the consequences...

There is still a way out, get Israel to stand down, get a full ceasefire asap, IDF out of Gaza, and Iran and Hezbollah will stand down. (Or make a minimal 'statement' as deterrence). Yet it seems the US is only interested in fanning the flames with threats and more military presence in the ME.


Iran’s president says Tehran has ‘right to respond’ to attacks

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said his country has “the right to respond” to any aggression after a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was urging de-escalation amid soaring tensions with Israel.

According to a statement published by the official news agency IRNA following the call, Pezeshkian said: “While emphasising diplomatic solutions to issues, Iran will never give in to pressure, to sanctions and bullying and considers it has the right to respond to aggressors in accordance with international norms.”

Iran and Lebanese group Hezbollah are expected to retaliate for the Israeli assassinations of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran last month, and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in Beirut.

They are right, that's article 51 of the UN charter. If the UNSC doesn't do anything, Iran has the right to respond to the aggressors themselves.



Jordan rejects Israeli claim weapons smuggled to West Bank through its territory



“No amount of disinformation by radical Israeli officials spreading lies, including about Jordan, will change the fact that Israel’s continued aggression on Gaza … are the biggest threat to regional security,” Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, has said.

In a post on X, Safadi added: “The facts about the horrors this most radical of Israeli governments is bringing upon innocent Palestinian[s] … and the threat of its illegal actions and radical policies to the security and stability of region are so clear and documented. No propaganda campaigns, no lies, no fabrications can cover that.”

Safadi’s comments follow allegations by Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hamas fighters in Lebanon are smuggling “weapons and funds into Jordan with the aim of destabilising the regime”.

He claimed on X that these weapons and money are then smuggled across the eastern border, flooding the occupied West Bank, particularly refugee camps, and aiming to create a “pro-Iranian Islamic terror front”.