- Prime Minister calls for diplomacy over Middle East violence.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz urges all parties to stay on the path of peace.
- US President Trump tells both sides to ‘stop shooting’.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday called on all parties involved in the renewed hostilities between Iran and Israel in the Middle East to exercise restraint and “give peace a little more chance.”
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He added: “As we work seriously and thoroughly, together with our brothers and partners, to find a peaceful diplomatic solution to the conflict, and especially as the ultimate goal is about to be achieved, we sincerely urge all parties to exercise restraint and give peace a little more chance.”
The Prime Minister further said, “Let us continue on the path of peace and diplomacy, which have bright prospects of success instead of violence and destruction.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz’s statement comes after Israel and Iran traded attacks on Monday for the first time since a ceasefire in the Middle East war went into effect two months ago, despite US President Donald Trump calling for restraint.
Israel attacked Iranian targets after Tehran fired missiles into Israeli territory late Sunday. Tehran said its attacks were retaliation for Israeli attacks on Hezbollah strongholds outside Beirut.
Israel attacked a petrochemical plant in southwestern Iran that it said was used to produce ballistic missiles. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it retaliated with a targeted attack on a similar Israeli plant in the city of Haifa.
However, Iran and Israel said on Monday they had stopped attacking each other following a call from Trump to immediately “stop ‘shooting,'” although Tehran said it would resume attacks if Israel continued attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Oil prices, which had risen as much as 5% after the spate of attacks, pared their gains when Iran’s military said its first wave of attacks on Israel had ended. The dollar retreated from its highest level in almost two months.
