\u201cI\u00a0don’t see any difference. It\u00a0doesn’t matter who targets civilians.\u00a0It is\u00a0totally unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Representatives for the U.S. and Israeli governments did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Guterres’ remarks. America and Israel began a bombing campaign on Feb. 28, killing Iran’s supreme leader and sparking ongoing retaliatory missile-and-drone attacks from Tehran on sites across the Middle East. <\/p>\n
Having called for deescalation in the region, Guterres appeared to blame Israel for driving the conflict forward, and called on U.S. President Donald Trump to persuade Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to bring it to an end.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe\u00a0war needs to stop … and I believe that it is in the hands of the U.S. to make it stop. It is\u00a0possible\u00a0[to end the war],\u00a0but it depends on the political will to do it,\u201d Guterres told host Anne McElvoy for an episode of the EU Confidential podcast publishing Friday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am convinced that\u00a0Israel, as a strategy,\u00a0wants\u00a0to achieve a total destruction of the military capacity of Iran and\u00a0regime change.\u00a0And\u00a0I believe Iran has a strategy, which is to resist\u00a0for as\u00a0much time as possible and to cause as much harm as possible. So the\u00a0key to solve the problem is that the U.S.\u00a0decides to claim that they have done their job. <\/p>\n
\u201cPresident\u00a0Trump will be able\u00a0to\u00a0convince … those that need to be convinced that the work is done.\u00a0That the work can end,\u201d Guterres added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u00a0don’t see any difference. It\u00a0doesn’t matter who targets civilians.\u00a0It is\u00a0totally unacceptable,\u201d he said. Representatives for the U.S. and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3496,3074,12847,9101,9622,177,7221,686,687,12848,12034,382,1120,537,266,694,487,34,37,688,93,441,179,1419,213,55,150,6502,691,51,36,226,2679],"class_list":{"0":"post-27474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-annalena-baerbock","11":"tag-antonio-guterres","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-conflict","14":"tag-cooperation","15":"tag-crisis","16":"tag-drones","17":"tag-eu-confidential","18":"tag-fertilizers","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-friedrich-merz","21":"tag-germany","22":"tag-global-economy","23":"tag-infrastructure","24":"tag-insurance","25":"tag-iran","26":"tag-israel","27":"tag-keir-starmer","28":"tag-lebanon","29":"tag-maritime","30":"tag-military","31":"tag-natural-gas","32":"tag-oil","33":"tag-russia","34":"tag-shipping","35":"tag-tony-blair","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-war","39":"tag-war-in-iran","40":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116258667560249018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}