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Jerusalem, June 17 (EFE).- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar boasted this Tuesday that his offensive against Iran, which has already killed more than 200 people in these last five days, has broad international support despite the Persian country's attempts to thwart it.
"On the diplomatic front, all actions by the Iranian side have been blocked," Saar said at the opening of a meeting of the Knesset's (the Israeli Parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
The Foreign Minister emphasized that both in the emergency session at the UN Security Council, held last week, and in the IAEA Board of Governors, the UN's nuclear agency, "positive statements were heard" about its offensive against the Iranian country.
"There is a great understanding of the actions we have taken and also that the existential threat to Israel has implications for the security of the entire region, the security of Europe and the world order in general," he indicated.
And he added that, although there are also "dissenting voices in the international arena due to the usual concerns that the conflict will escalate", he insisted that, "in general, the approach is positive".
Israel began bombing Iran in the early hours of last Friday, pointing out the advances in the Islamic republic's nuclear program and the threat posed to the country by its manufacture of ballistic missiles.
Since then, its aviation has attacked military infrastructures (air defense systems, ballistic missile depots...) and nuclear plants (Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow), but also senior officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard or nuclear scientists.
"I have spent three decades at the center of decision-making and I can state that a military campaign has never been planned or managed as the 'Rising Lion' Operation was planned and is being managed: exhaustively and intensively, with an excellent continuous dialogue between the Government and the Army," said Saar.
This Tuesday, for the fifth consecutive day, the crossfire between Israel and Iran persists without any signs that the hostilities between both countries may conclude in the short term.
