Iran has threatened “severe” consequences to any further military action by Israel in the wake of Saturday night’s barrage of drones and missiles in retaliation to a suspected Israeli airstrike on an Iranian embassy building earlier this month. At an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Sunday, envoys from the two countries locked horns over the attacks – with Israel calling for sanctions and further retaliation, Iran claiming the matter had “concluded”, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres counselling de-escalation. In a statement posted online, Iran’s mission to the UN said: “Iran’s…
