Keir Starmer moved to ease tensions with Israel today stressing its 'right to self-defence' after strikes on Iran.
But the PM urged a 'diplomatic' solution to rising fears about Tehran developing nuclear weapons as he called a Cobra emergency meeting this afternoon.
Operation Rising Lion, involving more than 200 Israeli jets, targeted a facility in Natanz and the capital overnight - sparking alarm at the potential for an all-out war.
The US was told in advance that the raids were coming, but the UK was not given any notice amid rising tensions over Gaza.
In a call with Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the premier said a 'diplomatic resolution, rather than military action was the way forward'.
