Top updates: Netanyahu calls on world leaders to join Israel-US’ war on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on world leaders to join the Israel-US war on Iran.

“I’m happy to say that I can see some of them beginning to move in that direction, but more is needed,” Netanyahu added, without naming any country.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• Netanyahu made the comments on Sunday while speaking to reporters at the site of an Iranian attack in Arad town on Saturday. Iran had launched missile strikes on southern Israel, hitting areas near a nuclear site. The attacks injured 116 persons in Arad and 64 in Dimona town, Tel Aviv said.
• Iranian state television described the strikes on southern Israel as a response to an earlier Israel-US attack on the Natanz uranium enrichment facility on Saturday.
• After the attack on Natanz, the United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi repeated a “call for military restraint to avoid any risk of a nuclear accident”. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, said on Sunday that the conflict had reached a “perilous stage” with strikes on the Natanz complex and Dimona where a nuclear facility is located.
• United States President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid the conflict in West Asia, warning that the...

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