ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Jordan have expressed “deep concern over evolving regional situation” amidst the reports suggesting the destruction of an American defence radar at a Jordanian air base as a result of attacks launched by Iran.
In this apparent context, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar spoke to his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi.
Both leaders expressed deep concern over evolving regional situation, said a statement from the Foreign Office on Sunday.
It said Dar emphasised the urgent need for de-escalation, and the importance of dialogue and diplomacy as essential for peace, and stability in the region and beyond.
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Reports from the international media suggest that Iran’s strikes at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan destroyed missile defence radar worth USD300 million used by the United States Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) systems.
Earlier on Tuesday, Dar, the DPM appeared to imply that certain Muslim countries would have supported Iran had their specific installations not been attacked by the latter.
“Iran is a sovereign country, our brother, our friend, very dear to us— but they took a decision—I don’t want to get into that controversy,” he said at the Senate session here on Tuesday, in an implied yet obvious reference to Iran’s attacks on installations in some Muslim countries that have American military bases.
“I think if a counterattack had not taken place on those countries, we would have made them stand with us, and we would be having a joint voice,” he said, in his briefing to the Upper House of the Parliament, regarding the situation in the wake of ongoing war Iran-US/Israel war.
On 28 February, the US and Israel launched airstrikes in Iran, one of which resulted in the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—in what appeared to be a renewed push on part of the US and Israel for regime change in Iran.
Iran has since launched retaliatory missile attacks targeting installations in different cities of Israel, and American defence installations at military bases in some Muslim countries in the Middle East.
Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has vowed to avenge the assassination of the supreme leader, and not to surrender to the US and Israel.
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