Following Tehran’s missile attack on Israel, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on all parties in the Middle East conflict to exercise restraint in a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi.
In the conversation, Putin expressed the hope that there would not be a new round of confrontation, the Kremlin press service reported on Tuesday.
An escalation could have catastrophic consequences for the entire region, he said. Russia has not explicitly condemned the Iranian missile attack on Israel.
Iran had fired more than 300 missiles, cruise missiles and drones at Israel over the weekend. Israel and the allied defenses intercepted almost all the incoming fire.
Iran said it was in retaliation for a suspected Israeli attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria that killed two Iranian generals and five officers.
