Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi travelled to Iran and met the country president amid US and its Arab allies efforts to prevent a wider war in the Middle East, a media report said on Monday.
The high-ranking Jordan’s official rare visit comes to Tehran while Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh had been killed in Tehran, the capital of Iran in an attack last week.
Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Safadi met his Iranian counterpart Ali Bagheri Kani and newly selected president Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday, BBC reported.
Pezeshkian said the assassination of Haniyeh was a “major mistake by the Zionist regime [Israel] that will not go unanswered.
Safadi condemned the assassination of Haniyeh last Wednesday, calling it “a heinous crime and an escalatory step that constitutes a violation of international law and humanitarian law, and an infringement on state sovereignty. We reject it entirely.”
Iranian officials accused Israel and the United States for assassinating top Hamas leader in Tehran, however, US had rejected involvement in the attack.
Meanwhile, the royal court in Amman said that King Abdullah had received a phone call from French President Emmanuel Macron “which covered the dangerous situation in the region”.
The king appealed for “further international efforts to reach comprehensive calm and prevent a regional expansion of the conflict”, a statement said.
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