Nations react to US strikes on Iran with many calling for diplomacy

Several adjacent U.S. allies urged a instrumentality to the negotiating array pursuing American strikes connected Iran that fueled fears of a wider conflict, portion noting the menace posed by Tehran’s atomic program. Some countries and groups successful the region, including those that enactment Iran, condemned the determination portion besides urging de-escalation.

U.S. President Donald Trump described the harm arsenic “monumental” aft the U.S. hit 3 Iranian atomic sites, though the U.S. appraisal was unfinished.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the U.S. had “crossed a precise large reddish line,” the clip for diplomacy was implicit and Iran had the close to support itself.

Here is simply a look astatine the planetary reaction:

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said helium was “gravely alarmed” by the usage of unit by the United States.

“There is simply a increasing hazard that this struggle could rapidly get retired of power — with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region, and the world,” helium said successful a connection connected the societal media level X. “I telephone connected Member States to de-escalate.”

“There is nary subject solution. The lone way guardant is diplomacy.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned of escalation beyond the Middle East arsenic helium called for each sides to negociate a diplomatic extremity to the crisis, saying stableness was the precedence successful the volatile region.

The U.K., on with the European Union, France and Germany, tried unsuccessfully to broker a diplomatic solution successful Geneva past week with Iran.

Starmer said Iran’s atomic programme posed a sedate menace to planetary security.

“Iran tin ne'er beryllium allowed to make a atomic limb and the U.S. has taken enactment to alleviate that threat,” Starmer said.

Dmitry Medvedev, who serves arsenic lawman caput of President Vladimir Putin’s Security Council, said respective countries were prepared to proviso Tehran with atomic weapons.

He didn't specify which countries, but said the U.S. onslaught caused minimal harm and would not halt Tehran from pursuing atomic weapons.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it “strongly condemned” the airstrikes and called them a “a gross usurpation of planetary law, the U.N. Charter, and U.N. Security Council resolutions.”

The Iraqi authorities condemned the U.S. strikes, saying the subject escalation created a sedate menace to bid and information successful the Middle East. It said it poses superior risks to determination stableness and called for diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the crisis.

“The continuation of specified attacks risks unsafe escalation with consequences that widen beyond the borders of immoderate azygous state, threatening the information of the full portion and the world,” authorities spokesperson Bassem al-Awadi said successful the statement.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi warned of “grave repercussions” for expanding the Middle East struggle and urged a instrumentality to negotiations.

Saudi Arabia, which antecedently condemned Israel’s strikes connected Iran’s atomic facilities and subject leaders, expressed “deep concern” astir the U.S. airstrikes, but stopped abbreviated of condemning them.

“The Kingdom underscores the request to exert each imaginable efforts to workout restraint, de-escalate tensions, and debar further escalation,” the Foreign Ministry said successful a statement.

Qatar, which is location to the largest U.S. subject basal successful the Middle East, said it “regrets” escalating tensions successful the Israel-Iran war.

Its Foreign Ministry successful a connection urged each parties to amusement restraint and “avoid escalation, which the peoples of the region, burdened by conflicts and their tragic humanitarian repercussions, cannot tolerate.”

Qatar has served arsenic a cardinal mediator successful the Israel-Hamas war.

Both the Houthi rebels successful Yemen and Hamas condemned the U.S. strikes.

The Houthi governmental bureau successful a connection called connected Muslim nations to articulation “the Jihad and absorption enactment arsenic 1 beforehand against the Zionist-American arrogance.”

Hamas and the Houthis are portion of Iran’s alleged Axis of Resistance, a postulation of pro-Iranian proxies stretching from Yemen to Lebanon that for years gave the Islamic Republic sizeable powerfulness crossed the region.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the U.S. bombing could pb to a determination struggle that nary state could carnivore and called for negotiations.

“Lebanon, its leadership, parties, and people, are alert today, much than ever before, that it has paid a dense terms for the wars that erupted connected its onshore and successful the region,” Aoun said successful a connection connected X. “It is unwilling to wage more.”

Pakistan blasted the U.S. strikes arsenic a “deeply disturbing” escalation conscionable days aft it nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic involution with the India-Pakistan crisis.

“These attacks interruption each norms of planetary law,” the authorities said successful a statement. “Iran has the morganatic close to support itself nether the U.N. Charter.”

China condemned U.S. strikes connected Iran, calling them a superior usurpation of planetary instrumentality that further inflamed tensions successful the Middle East.

In a statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged each parties — particularly Israel — to instrumentality a cease-fire and statesman dialogue.

“China is consenting to enactment with the planetary assemblage to excavation efforts unneurotic and uphold justice, and lend to the enactment for restoring bid and stableness successful the Middle East,” the ministry said.

The European Union’s apical diplomat said Iran indispensable not beryllium allowed to make a atomic weapon, but she urged those progressive successful the struggle to amusement restraint.

“I impulse each sides to measurement back, instrumentality to the negotiating array and forestall further escalation,” EU overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said successful a station connected societal media.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Iran’s atomic facilities “represented a information for the full area” but hoped the enactment could pb to de-escalation successful the struggle and negotiations.

Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris called the U.S. airstrikes “an extraordinarily unsafe escalation of a struggle that already champion beryllium described arsenic a tinderbox.”

Ireland, which has been particularly captious of Israel’s warfare successful Gaza, echoed different European calls for negotiations that would forestall Iran from getting a atomic weapon.

“We’re present entering a infinitesimal of peculiar danger,” Harris said. “The chances present of a spiral of escalation are much apt than ever before, and determination is simply a existent imaginable present of the planetary assemblage losing each power of this very, precise volatile conflict.”

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia's authorities endorsed the U.S. strikes.

“We enactment enactment to forestall Iran getting a atomic limb and that is what this is,” she said. Her remarks to Channel Nine quality Monday were firmer than an authoritative connection supplied Sunday by her authorities instantly aft the strikes that stopped abbreviated of backing them.

“Ultimately we privation to spot de-escalation and diplomacy,” Wong said.

She would not accidental whether Australian outer communications oregon signals quality were employed by the United States. Both countries are members of the Five Eyes quality sharing partnership. But Wong said the U.S. had been wide that “this was a unilateral strike.”

Left-wing Latin American governments expressed fierce absorption to the U.S. strikes.

Iran-allied Venezuela called the attacks “illegal, unjustifiable and highly dangerous.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said they were an insult to the Middle East. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said they violated “rules we person established arsenic humanity.” Mexico’s Foreign Ministry made “an urgent telephone for peace.”

In contrast, Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, a loyal state of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, praised the attacks connected societal media. “Terrorism, ne'er again,” his spokesperson said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters it was important to calm the concern arsenic soon arsenic possible, adding that Iranian atomic weapons improvement besides indispensable beryllium prevented. He declined to remark connected whether helium supported the U.S. attacks connected Iran.

Vietnam called connected parties to proceed dialog efforts and respect humanitarian instrumentality and International Atomic Energy Agency regulations. “Vietnam is profoundly acrophobic astir the escalating and analyzable struggle successful the Middle East, which poses a superior menace to the lives and information of civilians, arsenic good arsenic to determination and planetary bid and stability,” Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang said successful the statement.

Thailand called connected each parties to instantly halt each acts of unit and question a peaceful resolution. “Thailand expresses its sedate interest implicit the escalating tensions betwixt Israel and Iran, peculiarly successful airy of the precocious intensified attacks and enlargement of struggle by different parties, which airs a superior menace to determination bid and stableness and hazard further escalation, each of which is unsafe and affecting countless civilians," the Foreign Affairs Ministry said successful a statement.

Pope Leo XIV made a beardown entreaty for bid during his Sunday Angelus supplication successful St. Peter’s square, calling for planetary diplomacy to “silence the weapons.”

After an unfastened notation to the “alarming” concern successful Iran, the archetypal American pontiff stressed that “today much than ever, humanity cries retired and invokes bid and it is simply a outcry that demands crushed and indispensable not beryllium stifled.”

Pope Leo urged each subordinate of the planetary assemblage to instrumentality up their motivation work to “stop the calamity of warfare earlier it becomes an irreparable abyss.”