China: The worsening conflict in the Middle East cannot be resolved by force.

The Chinese Special Envoy to the Middle East, Zhai Jun, met with Ali Bagheri Gani, Deputy Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, in Tehran, and stressed China’s aspiration to strengthen bilateral relations, and that the worsening conflict in the Middle East cannot be resolved by force.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last week, during his meeting in Beijing with Deputy Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council for International Affairs, Ali Bagheri Kani, that all parties to the conflict in the Middle East should focus on political solutions instead of resorting to weapons again.

The Xinhua News Agency quoted Wang as telling the Iranian official that dialogue and negotiation are the way to resolve conflicts in the Middle East. Wang added that China supports Iran in protecting its sovereignty and security.

According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s statement, Wang said that the war in the Middle East “has been prolonged, extended and expanded,” and that “dialogue and negotiation are the path to the solution.” He called on the parties to exercise “a spirit of responsibility towards peoples and history,” “to meet halfway,” and to focus “rationally and realistically” on the political settlement, “instead of resorting to weapons again.”

He said that China will continue to work with all parties to restore peace in the region, based on the “series of initiatives and proposals” put forward by President Xi Jinping to calm the situation in the Middle East.

Yesterday, Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot removed his rival, longest-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from forming the expected new government, after receiving an official mandate from President Isaac Herzog to form the government within a period of up to 6 weeks.

Eisenkot showed urgency in completing the formation of the government. After a meeting with Herzog, he said that Israel could not “afford to prolong matters or return to another round of endless elections,” and he believed that “Israeli democracy is going through one of the most sensitive moments” in its history.

The Israeli parliamentary system allows the formation of a minority government; That is, it has less than 61 seats out of 120 seats in the Knesset, provided that no other party gathers a majority (60 seats + 1) that votes to oust it.

Eisenkot called on the Likud Party, led by Netanyahu, to join a government headed by him. The call came the day after Netanyahu feared that the alliance between the opposition parties (led by Eisenkot) and the Arab parties would lead to the “disintegration” of Israel. In turn, Herzog, in his speech during the meeting with Eisenkot, warned of what he described as “the state of political uncertainty that the country faces in the wake of the American elections.”

Yesterday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard warned that Tehran would be “more serious” if Washington was serious about imposing the blockade, and described the American “Iron Gate” plan as “play with words.”

While President Masoud Pezeshkian called for “leaving factional tensions aside” to reach an agreement, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi gave Washington the choice between implementing a two-day Iranian proposal, which includes ending the war on all fronts, or war.

In addition, the Chairman of the Parliamentary National Security Committee, Ibrahim Azizi, said that Tehran “will not make the nuclear industry a subject of bargaining,” while representatives demanded that enrichment be raised to 90 percent, and questioned the feasibility of remaining in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and stipulated that the seven conditions be implemented before any negotiation.

Iran announced the explosion of four tankers in the Strait of Hormuz due to a “violation” of their routes, while an American plane disabled a cargo ship in the Sea of ​​Oman.