Amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran, US President Joe Biden has appealed to Iran to disarm the escalating threat.

US President Joe Biden and his counterparts from France, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom “call on Iran to abandon threats of military attack against Israel”, in a joint statement released by the White House this Monday, August 12.

Speaking earlier, the five leaders “discussed the dire consequences such an attack would have on regional security”.

Iran’s president says his country has “right to reply”

Tensions between Israel and Iran have been rising for a few days. At the origin of this febrile increase: TheAssassination of Hamas leader Ismail HaniyehOn July 31 in Tehran. Organizations such as Iran, Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah blamed Israel for being behind it. The day before, he was killed in an Israeli attack Hezbollah military chief Fuad ChogrNear Beirut.

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian declared during a phone interview with German Chancellor Olaf Scholes that his country has the right to “respond” to any aggression against it.

The White House acknowledged that if the Iranian attack were to happen, it “could certainly have an impact on the negotiations” that were planned for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.