OREANDA-NEWS. Washington and Tehran should immediately stop using weapons to give space to dialogue to de-escalate the situation. This was announced on Wednesday in Brussels by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. "The use of weapons should stop right now to give space for dialogue. We are called upon to do everything possible to resume negotiations", she said.

According to von der Leyen, the board of the European Commission held an emergency meeting on the situation around Iran, analyzing, in particular, the possible impact of what is happening on the EU. "The college analyzed the potential consequences of the current crisis for the European Union, for example, in the areas of transport, energy, migration, and also for economic development", she said, stressing that the situation around Iran "deeply affects everyone".

The situation in the Middle East, the largest oil-producing region in the world, sharply worsened after the commander of the special forces of Al-Quds of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Kassem Suleimani, was killed during a US Army operation on January 3. Iran promised to answer for the death of Suleymani and on Wednesday night struck at US military bases in Iraq.