BEIJING, MAR 18 :China vowed Wednesday to keep mediating for a Middle East ceasefire, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi telling UAE envoy Khaldoon Al Mubarak that the war never should have started and has no excuse to drag on. Beijing backed UAE’s security too, as fresh strikes and nuclear worries grip the region.
The Kremlin shot down a Wall Street Journal story claiming Russia shares satellite images and drone tech with Iran to hit US targets, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov branding it “fake news.”
NATO stepped up with another US Patriot system to Turkey’s Adana near Incirlik Air Base, adding to a Spanish one and a new Malatya deployment—Turkey’s bulking air defenses against Iran-launched missiles since the fighting flared.
Russia’s UN envoy Mikhail Ulyanov warned of disaster after a projectile hit near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, exploding just 200 meters from the reactor with no damage reported—but he fears more strikes could spark a regional nuclear crisis, criticizing IAEA’s mild reaction.
