Mauritania Slams Israel’s Shocking Strike on Iran: A New Wave of Tension in the Region

Mauritania condemned Israel’s attack on Iran last night, Friday/Saturday, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday.

According to their army spokesman, Israel launched an air attack on “Iranian military positions,” and from there began the attack launched by Iran this month, in a series of reprisals between the two countries, following the assassination of a director the political bureau of Hamas inside Iran.

In its statement, Mauritania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its strong condemnation of Israel’s attack on Iran, as “a clear violation of the sovereignty of this country and a clear violation of the principles of international law that threatens international peace and security.”

Through the statement, he renewed the call to the international community “to put an end to the daily tragedy of innocent civilians” and “for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and Lebanon,” the main cause of the current tension between Iran and Israel.

Mauritania has diplomatic relations with Iran, while Mauritania severed its ties with Israel, which it linked in the late 1990s, with Israel in 2009, against the background of Israel’s aggression against Gaza in 2008.

Iran launched its first direct military attack on Israel in April this year, when it launched marches and missiles targeting Israeli cities, to which Israel responded by bombing Iranian military facilities in Isfahan.