Germany asks Iran to help prevent further escalation in West Asia
Germany has asked Iran to help prevent further escalation in the region, days after calling on global powers to mediate a decrease in regional tensions.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made the plea in a Friday telephone conversation with Iran's interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani.
“Further escalation must be prevented at all costs, and Iran must also contribute to this,” she told Kani, according to a German foreign ministry post on X, former Twitter.
The comments came amid an October-present genocidal war by the Israeli regime against the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of at least 37,765 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The regime began waging sporadic attacks against Lebanon following the onset of the war, prompting a firefight with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
The exchange of fire has intensified since the Israeli assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Sami Taleb Abdullah.
The movement has retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets into the northern parts of the occupied territories.
Earlier this month, the Israeli army said it had approved plans for an attack on Lebanon, raising concerns that the regime might try to realize its recurrent threats of turning Lebanon into another Gaza.
On Wednesday, the German top diplomat said there was a need for world powers to chip in towards dialing down the regional tensions.
Speaking to Germany’s Deutschlandfunk public radio, she voiced deep concern over potential further escalation along Lebanon's southern border.
“Another war would mean a regional escalation on a scale we can hardly imagine,” Baerbock said.
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