After Israel’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria, Iran is likely to retaliate, according to the American newspaper, Iran may attack Israel in the next 24 to 48 hours.
The latest escalation came following Iran vowed to retaliate for the attack on its consulate in Damascus, Syria, and Iran threatened Israel within the next 48 hours, the Wall Street General report said. A direct attack was suggested.
Indian media say that India has banned its citizens from traveling to Iran and the Middle East. While India has also issued a travel advisory in this regard.
On April 1, Israeli warplanes attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing a top Iranian military commander and six officers. After which Iran blamed Israel for the attack, while Israel has not publicly acknowledged or denied its role in the attack.
US not involved in Damascus attack, White House
The US has made it clear to Iran that the US is not involved in the Damascus attack.
The White House press secretary, Ryan Jean-Pierre, said that the United States does not want this conflict to spread, and that Iran should not use the Damascus attack as an excuse to escalate the conflict or attack American facilities.
US Secretary of State Antony Blanken made contacts with Turkish, Chinese and Saudi counterparts during the 24 hours.
US Secretary of State contact with Turkish, Chinese and Saudi counterparts
On the other hand, the American administration became active on the Iran-Israel tension in the Middle East.
Contact of Iranian Foreign Minister with German, British and Australian counterpart
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian contacted German, British and Australian counterparts and discussed the situation in the Middle East.
Hossein Amir Abdullahian said that the counter-reaction to the attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria is justified, when Israel breaks diplomatic and international law, it should be prepared to react.
The German Foreign Minister appealed to Iran to exercise restraint in the situation in the Middle East.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s warning to Iran
On the other hand, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron warned Iran not to push the Middle East towards a major conflict, worried that these miscalculations would fuel the fire further.
In the Australian city of Sydney, an alleged suspicious person has injured several people by stabbing a local mall, on the other hand, the police have killed the suspect.
According to foreign media reports, Australian police received reports of several people being injured in an attack on a local mall on Saturday. To which the police gave an immediate response.
After the attack in Sydney’s Westfield Bonding Junction Malik, citizens tried to help themselves to reach a safe place, 7 people have died in the tragic incident.
According to the police, women and children are also among the injured, while the accused has also died in the retaliatory attack by the police.
New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said in a press conference that the person who attacked has been killed, civilians have been injured in this attack, who have been transferred to the hospital for medical assistance. While there are reports that a Pakistani security guard was seriously injured in the attack. He has been shifted to the hospital for medical assistance.
The man who fatally stabbed six people in Sydney had mental health problems in the past and there were no indications that the ideology was a motive in the attack at one of the city’s busiest shopping centers, police said Sunday. The attacker, identified by police as Joel Cauchi40, was known to police in the neighboring state of Queensland.
Cauchi’s family recognized and contacted the police on Saturday following seeing news of the murders. “The family, upon seeing the images of the event on television“He thought it might be his son and contacted the authorities,” said Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Roger Lowe.
Witnesses described how Cauchi, dressed in shorts and an Australian National Rugby League shirt, ran through the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre. with a knife, attacking people at random. Some shoppers and staff at the eastern Sydney shopping center tried to stop him and the crowd broke out. took refuge in the tents closed.
“There is at this point, nothing that we have, no information that we have received, no evidence that we have recovered or intelligence that we have gathered that suggests that this was driven by some particular motivationideology or otherwise,” the police clarified.
Cauchi had recently moved to Sydney. Police said she had searched a small warehouse he had recently rented, but found no significant evidence to indicate an attack was coming. Five of the six people murdered were women, and the victim male was security guard from a shopping center, according to police.
Among the people taken to hospital with stab wounds was a nine month old baby, who was in serious but stable condition, police reported Sunday. The baby’s mother, Ashlee Good, passed away in the hospital as a result of his injuries, according to his family in a statement.
Attacks like Saturday’s are rare in Australia, a country of regarding 26 million people that has some of the strictest firearms and knife laws in the world.
AUSTRALIA says it will appoint a special adviser to work with Israel to ensure “transparency” in the investigation into an airstrike in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, including an Australian.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia wanted detailed answers regarding how aid workers from the US-based World Central Kitchen were killed by Israeli forces last Monday.
The group includes Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom, a 43-year-old Australian citizen, as well as British, Palestinian, Polish and US-Canadian employees.
Wong told reporters Saturday that the information regarding the attack provided by Israel so far was insufficient and that the Australian government wanted “suitably qualified people” to monitor the investigation.
“The government will appoint a special advisor who we ask Israel to cooperate with so that we can be informed regarding the feasibility of the process,” Wong said.
“We want to have complete confidence in the transparency and accountability of any investigation.”
Also read: Australian Prime Minister Condemns Israel’s Explanation of the Death of Aid Workers in Gaza
Israel’s military said it fired two officers over the killing of aid workers in Gaza, where humanitarian groups say famine is imminent.
But Israel’s admission of rare wrongdoing has not stopped calls for an independent investigation.
The deaths of the aid workers caused tension between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Also read: Britain asks Israel for an explanation for the killing of seven volunteers in Gaza
Wong said details of the special adviser would be announced in the near future.
The war in Gaza began on October 7 with an unprecedented attack on the territory by Hamas militants that resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, according to Israeli data.
Palestinian militants also held around 250 Israelis and foreigners hostage, regarding 130 of whom were still in Gaza, including more than 30 people the army said were killed.
Israel’s counteroffensive once morest Hamas has killed at least 33,137 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory. (AFP/Z-3)
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