Confirming an announcement on Sunday, the French government today summoned Iran's ambassador to the country, Mohammad Amin-Nejad, to the Foreign Ministry, who expressed Paris's condemnation of the attack on Israel “with the utmost conviction.” Saturday with hundreds of missiles and drones.
France told the Iranian ambassador that “by carrying out this reckless attack, [o Irão] There is a risk of escalation that no one is interested in,” the French ministry said in a statement.
“These extreme and unprecedented actions (…) threaten regional stability and must be stopped immediately,” he added.
Also, Paris diplomacy urged the ambassador to demand the immediate release of French citizens “arbitrarily detained in Iran.”
Officials of the Czech Republic today called on the Iranian ambassador in Prague, Seyed Majid Ghafele Bashi, to say that Tehran had “crossed all limits” with the attack against Israel.
In a message on the social network X, the head of Czech diplomacy, Jan Lipavsky, said he had warned the Iranian ambassador that his country's armed action “endangers the security of the entire region.”
The Czech Republic, a member of the European Union and NATO, has historically been one of Israel's biggest allies in Europe. Lipovsky accused Iran of “maintaining a long-term aggressive behavior” and accused Tehran of acting “with the tacit agreement of its Russian friends.”
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala expressed his support for Israel and its right to self-defense.”
Iran announced on Sunday that it had summoned the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, France and Germany to protest the comments of officials from the three countries following an Iranian attack in retaliation for Israel's bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus.
Diplomatic efforts in Paris and Prague followed similar ones from Germany and Belgium, which invited their respective Iranian ambassadors to their capitals.
“I can confirm that the Iranian ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry this morning and that negotiations are underway,” a Berlin diplomatic spokesman said during a press conference today.
In a statement, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement today, Minister Hadja Lahfib called on Ambassador Seyed Mohammad Ali Robadjazi to condemn the Iranian attack on Israeli territory and to exercise restraint in Tehran to ease tensions.
“This attack has intensified like never before and has put the entire region at risk of conflagration. We strongly condemn this. This attack endangers stability and people, and takes us away from peace. I call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint,” said the head of Belgian diplomacy.
According to the Israeli military, Iran launched an offensive against Israel on Saturday night and early Sunday morning, using more than 300 drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, most of which were intercepted.
Tehran justified the attack as a defensive move, arguing that the military operation was in response to the “Zionist regime's aggression” against Iranian diplomatic posts in Damascus, which took place on April 1, in which seven Revolutionary Guards died. Two generals and six Syrian civilians.
The Western international community strongly condemned Iran's attack on Israel, demanding maximum restraint to avoid an escalation of violence in the Middle East, which is already highly volatile due to more than six months of ongoing war between Tel Aviv forces. Aviv and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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