Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdulahian told German Foreign Minister Anlana Barbuk during a phone call today (Thursday) that Iran is obligated to respond to the Israeli assassination of General Mohammad Azar Zahedi in Damascus last week. Germany's foreign minister initiated the phone call at the request of the American administration to convey a message to Iran that escalation should be avoided.
The Iranian foreign minister said during the conversation that the Iranian response would be "appropriate" and limited. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said this evening that the Biden administration is still concerned about Iranian threats to attack Israel. He said that Secretary of State Lincoln spoke with the foreign ministers of China, Saudi Arabia and Turkey and asked them to stress to Iran the escalation of the situation must be avoided in the region. Miller said that the US has also asked some of its European allies to convey messages to Iran that escalation in the area will not serve Iran's interests. The attack in which a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards was eliminated in Damascus was documented on social networks according to Article 27 A of the Copyright Law.