After US air attacks in Iran Saturday, prime minister Mark Carney has called for a de -escalation of hostility in the Middle East and for parties to “immediately return to the negotiating table”.
“The Iranian nuclear program is a serious threat to international security, and Canada has consistently clarified that Iran should never develop a nuclear weapon,” he wrote in an explanation divided on x Sunday morning. “While US military measures that were taken last night to relieve this threat remains very fleeting in the Middle East. Stability in the region is a priority.
“As the G7 leaders in Kananaskis agreed, the solution to the Iranian crisis should lead to a more comprehensive de-escalation of hostility in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza,” he continued: Added:
Moments after Carney shared his explanation, Foreign Minister Anita Anand said a position Push Canadian in the Middle East to register with Global Affairs Canada, “to obtain country -specific information, including available travel options.”
Anand wrote that the Canadian government continues to support all efforts to make de -escalation, to protect civil life and to restore stability through diplomacy. We ask the parties to return to the negotiating table and to achieve a solution to this crisis.
“The Prime Minister and I are regularly informed about new developments and ensure that all the necessary resources are available to support Canadian work to protect our citizens,” she added.
Several closing US allies also found the threat of Tehran’s nuclear power, but called for a return to the negotiating table after the strikes that fueled the fears from a broader conflict. Some countries and groups in the Middle East, including those who support Iran, condemned the move and at the same time urged the duck.
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US President Donald Trump Had said on Thursday that he would decide within two weeks whether he should get involved with Tehran in Israel’s war. In the end it only took days. Washington Three Iranian atomic nucleus Locations in the early Sunday.
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage in the Fordo Enrichment facility in Iran after the US strikes on Sunday, June 22, 2025.
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While the amount of damage remained unclear, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the United States had “exceeded a very large red line”. He also said that the time for diplomacy was over and that Iran has the right to defend itself.
Some have wondered whether a weakened Iran surrender or defiant and would be hit with allies on US goals that are scattered over the golf region.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that he was “severely alerted” by the Using Violence by the United States.
“There is a growing risk that this conflict could quickly get out of control-with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region and the world,” he said in an explanation on the social media platform X.
“There is no military solution. The only way forward is diplomacy.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starrer If Iran asked to return to the negotiation table to diplomatically end the crisis and said stability was the priority in the volatile region.
Together with the European Union, France and Germany last week, Great Britain unsuccessfully tried a diplomatic solution with Iran in Geneva.
According to Starrer, Iran’s nuclear program is a serious threat to global security.
“Iran must never develop a nuclear weapon, and the United States has taken measures to relieve this threat,” said Starrer.
Dmitry Medwedev, who acts as deputy head of President Vladimir Putin Security Council, said that several countries are ready to supply Tehran with nuclear weapons.
He did not state which countries, but the US attack caused minimal damage and would not prevent Tehran from pursuing nuclear weapons.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that air strikes “strongly convicted” and referred to it as “gross violation of international law, the UN Charter and the UN Security Council.
The Iraqi government condemned the US strikes and said that the military escalation is a serious threat to peace and security in the Middle East. It said it was serious risks to regional stability and demanded diplomatic efforts to de escalate the crisis.
“The continuation of such attacks risks a dangerous escalation with consequences that go beyond the limits of a single state and threaten the security of the entire region and the world,” said the spokesman for the government, Bassem al-Awadi, in the explanation.
In Rome, Pope Leo XIV made a strong confession of peace during his Sunday prayer on St. Peter Square and demanded international diplomacy to “silence weapons”.
After an open reference to the “alarming” situation in Iran, the first American Pope emphasized: “Today, humanity screams more than ever and calls peace and it is a cry that requires reason and does not have to be suppressed.”
Pope Leo asked every member of the international community to assume his moral responsibility, “to stop the tragedy of the war before becoming an irreparable abyss”.
– With files from the Associated Press
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