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The UK has called for restraint and diplomacy aft Israel launched airstrikes connected Iran aboriginal connected Friday.
The Israeli subject said a "pre-emptive, precise, combined violative based connected high-quality intelligence" had been launched - called Operation Rising Lion.
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In a statement, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urged "all parties to measurement backmost and trim tensions urgently".
He added: "Escalation serves nary 1 successful the region. Stability successful the Middle East indispensable beryllium the precedence and we are engaging partners to de-escalate.
"Now is the clip for restraint, calm and a instrumentality to diplomacy."
Foreign Secretary David Lammy added that "this is simply a unsafe moment" and said "stability successful the Middle East is captious for planetary security".
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