LONDON, April 16 -- The government of the United Kingdom issued text of the following speech:
The United Kingdom condemns unequivocally Iran's reckless attack against Israel, which risked thousands of civilian casualties.
The scale and nature of Iran's heinous assault - the first direct attack from Iran on Israeli soil - poses grave risks to the security and stability of citizens across the Middle East.
The United Kingdom has long been clear that Iran plays an unacceptable role in destabilising the region, and that it also bearsresponsibility for the actions of the groups it has supported militarily, financially, and politically over many years.Through this attack, Iran has once again demonstrated that it is intent on sowing chaos in the...