The West 'adds fuel' to the escalating fire in the Middle East

According to RIA Novosti, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said that the West has done everything to "add fuel to the fire of escalation" in the Middle East, provoking and pushing Israel to take radical steps.

“The West has been pushing Israel to plan everything all this time, adding fuel to the fire of escalation, and in fact provoking Tel Aviv. Their artificial creation of tensions on international platforms only pushes Israel to take radical steps, creating the illusion of permissibility in them,” Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on June 13 (Washington time).

Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations Amir Said Irrawani said that Israel's attacks against Iran were carried out with US intelligence and political support.

"The Israeli regime, the most dangerous and terrorist regime in the world, with the full intelligence and political support of the US administration, has carried out a series of coordinated and deliberate military attacks in a number of Iranian cities," Iran's representative said at the Security Council meeting.

"We will not forget that our people died as a result of Israeli attacks using American weapons. These actions are tantamount to a declaration of war," Iran's permanent representative added.

Several other countries, besides the US, helped Israel repel Iran's retaliatory attack, CNN reported, citing Israeli sources.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khameinei in a message to the country's citizens called Israel's attacks on Iran a crime and said Israel was facing a "bitter and terrible fate".