Iran tells China it is ‘willing to exercise restraint’ in Israel, has ‘no plan’ to escalate situation

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China’s Wang Yi and Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a phone call where they discussed Israel’s April 1 consular attack in Syria’s Damascus In a phone call with China’s Wang Yi, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Tehran is “willing to exercise restraint” in Israel and has no plan to escalate the situation following its first-ever direct assault against Tel Aviv over the weekend. Late on Saturday, Iran launched a barrage of drone attacks against Israel, keeping its pledge to retaliate after Israeli strikes killed Iranian top generals in Syria. According to a readout by China’s foreign ministry,...