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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

US and Israel are warned against launching fresh strikes on Iran

Foreign ministers from the Middle East and Europe stand beside their respective nations' flags.
Faisal bin Farhan of Saudi Arabia, Ishaq Dar of Pakistan, Hakan Fidan of Turkey, Jean-Noël Barrot of France, Johann Wadephul of Germany, Ed Miliband of the UK and Antonio Tajani of Italy at the summit in Istanbul on Friday. Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA

Foreign ministers at a summit of eight European and Middle Eastern countries have urged the US and Israel not to renews their attacks on Iran, warning a fresh outbreak of fighting would spread conflict and push oil prices even higher.

The development of a new multinational “anti-war bloc” represents a challenge to the increasingly open plans by the US and Israel to relaunch strikes on Iran while talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme remain deadlocked.

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