Proposals on Middle East de-escalation must be addressed to US — Iranian FM

Middle East states keep coming up with de-escalation solutions, but they should be addressed to the United States since it was Washington that unleashed the war on Iran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

"Indeed, these initiatives put forward by regional countries to reduce tensions and our response to all of them is obvious - we are not the side that started this war, and all of these requests should be addressed to Washington," Mehr news agency quoted a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry as saying.