The United Nations voices concern on Monday about the rising rhetoric between the United States and Iran, and calls on the two sides to dial down their remarks.
The appeal comes after President Donald Trump on Sunday warned that any attack from Iran would be met with a devastating US response that would mean “the official end of Iran.”
“We are concerned about the rising rhetoric,” says UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who cites the firing of a rocket on Sunday, which struck a Baghdad area that houses foreign embassies including that of the US, as being “also a concern.”
“We would ask all parties to lower the rhetoric and lower the threshold of action as well,” says the spokesman.
UN officials are holding contacts with the US and Iran at various levels to try to calm the situation, says Dujarric, but he does not provide details of those talks.
— AFP
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