US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on his counterparts in China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia amid rising concerns of a possible Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel, the Department of State said on Thursday. “Secretary Blinken has been engaged in diplomacy over the past 24 hours through a series of calls to foreign counterparts… to make clear that escalation is not in anyone’s interest and that countries should urge Iran not to escalate,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in Washington. Miller said that Blinken spoke to counterparts “including Turkish foreign ministe…