Cameron asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to rule out an escalation of the conflict, although he considered that the attack launched by Iran, which lost 13 of its citizens in the Israeli aggression in Syria, suffered a double defeat.

In Cameron’s opinion, Iran failed from a military point of view and also showed its negative influence in the region, even though the events took place in the midst of the extermination of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been waging.

The United Kingdom was among the countries that supported Israel in the destruction of some of the dozens of drones and missiles launched by Iran in retaliation for the Israeli April 1st attack against its consulate in Damascus, which violated the norms of international law.

London chose on several occasions to abstain from voting in the UN Security Council on proposed resolutions aimed at achieving at least a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, where Israeli forces have caused more than 33,600 deaths and some 70,000 injuries among the population.

In this regard, Russia’s representative at the UN, Vasili Nebenzia, denounced “the parade of hypocrisy and double standards” shown by the West by calling an urgent meeting of the Security Council to analyze the Iranian response against Israel.

“You know perfectly well that an attack against an embassy constitutes a casus belli in international law,” the Russian official stressed. “If that attack had been against (an embassy) in a Western country, you, without thinking, would launch response measures and demonstrate in this room your right to do so,” he denounced.

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