Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday he was "extremely worried" that a new escalation in the war between the United States and Iran would be more destructive and have a major impact.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. Reuters/Mohamed Abdel Ghany
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday he was "extremely worried" that a new escalation in the war between the United States and Iran would be more destructive and have a major impact.
He was speaking at the IISS Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain.
"The second round will be more dangerous, more destructive, and it will lead to nowhere. We have to draw lessons from the past," he said.
An interim agreement reached in June failed to secure a lasting ceasefire in the Iran war or restore normal shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has since proposed that Washington lift its blockade of Iranian ports in exchange for Tehran reopening the disrupted waterway within seven days.
Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday in a renewed effort to broker a deal, but the sides remain divided over whether nuclear negotiations or relief from the blockade and oil sanctions should come first.
Reporting by Timour Azhari
Lebanon will no longer serve as a launchpad for threats against its Arab neighbours or as a forward defence line for other countries’ interests, Foreign Minister Joe Raggi declared on Saturday.
Iranian negotiators held talks in Doha with Qatari mediators on Saturday to discuss paths out of war in the Gulf, a source told Reuters, as diplomats try to avert a new outbreak of fighting after the US midterm elections this week.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Friday that three oil tankers had caught fire and exploded while attempting to use what it described as unauthorised routes through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported.
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