Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said Iran’s overnight attack on Israel had taken the Middle East to the “edge of a precipice” and called for restraint, Ednews reports via The Guardian.
She said Tehran had “plunged an entire region into chaos” and the spiralling tensions needed to end, AP reports.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz denounced a “grave escalation” and underlined Berlin’s “solidarity” with Israel.
He told reporters during a visit to China that “we cannot but call on everyone, in particular Iran, to not continue along this path.”