Moscow expressed concern at escalation in the Middle East on Sunday following the Iranian overnight attacks on Israel and blamed Western powers for failing to respond to the earlier attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus. “Unfortunately, due to the position adopted by its Western members, the [UN] Security Council was unable to provide a proper response to the strike on the Iranian consular mission,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Iran was invoking its right to self-defence under the UN Charter, it added. At the time, Russia had condemned the April 1 air attack on the Iranian embassy groun…