“If the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday. “If the conflict escalates further, not only will the conflicting parties suffer greater losses, but regional countries will also suffer greatly.”

United States President Donald Trump said that Iran's key nuclear sites were “completely and fully obliterated” by US strikes. Trump Tehran against carrying out retaliatory attacks against the US, saying Iran has choice between “peace or tragedy".

Russian President Vladimir Putin made the following comments at a plenary session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday.