U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a Middle East trip due to heightened security concerns in the region and a possible retaliatory strike from Iran against Israel.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reportedly postponed a trip to the Middle East over heightened security concerns in the region and a possible retaliatory strike from Iran against Israel. Blinken’s trip, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was delayed over 'uncertainty about the situation,' Axios reported, citing two unnamed sources.
The leaders of Britain, France and Germany on Monday urged Iran and its allies to refrain from retaliatory attacks against Israel in response to the assassination of a top Hamas commander in Tehran last month. Israel was immediately blamed for the assassination after pledging to kill Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders over the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state, which killed 1,200 people and saw hundreds more taken hostage.
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