U.N. chief: “We are on the edge of a wider war”

The secretary-general of the United Nations warned Thursday that the Middle East conflict risked spiraling into a wider war. He also called for an immediate halt to U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iranian attacks on its neighbors.

“We are on the edge of a wider war that would engulf the Middle East with dramatic impacts around the globe,” Antonio Guterres told reporters in New York.

Guterres previously called the war “out of control” and said it “this has gone too far.”

“The conflict has broken past the limits even leaders thought unimaginable,” he said last Wednesday.