Canada Urges Halt to Escalating Violence as Israel Suspected of Airstrike on Iran

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again called for the de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East on April 19, following an airstrike in Iran widely suspected of being a retaliatory attack by Israel. “Everything needs to be done to prevent further escalation in the region, to get back on a track toward supporting people in the region,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters in Victoria. Canada condemns Iran’s “absolutely irresponsible” missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend, Mr. Trudeau said. The two countries have been in a proxy war for decades, but Iran struck Israel directly for the first time on April 13 in retaliation for what it believed was an Israeli attack on its embassy in Syria....