The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that it would send its special envoy to the Middle East, Zhai Jun, on a tour “soon” to mediate between the Iranian terror regime and its Middle Eastern neighbors, which Tehran has targeted this week with drone and missile strikes.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning stated that her boss, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, had made several phone calls to various counterparts in the Middle East urging “restraint” and an end to the current hostilities in the region. Chinese Foreign Ministry officials have made several comments in the past week that, while not explicitly naming Iran, appeared to criticize its conduct, including calls to allow the safe transit of commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz and an end to the targeting of civilian areas.
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