Mideast situation fraught with spreading beyond current conflict zone - Peskov

MOSCOW. Oct 11 (Interfax) - The situation in the Middle East is more than alarming and is potentially fraught with spreading beyond the current conflict zone, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

"The situation is more than alarming, it's potentially fraught with spreading beyond the current Arab-Israeli conflict zone. It's very important for the parties to exercise restraint now," Peskov said in an interview for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television show on the Rossiya 1 (VGTRK) television channel, which its author, journalist Pavel Zarubin, posted on his Telegram channel.

It is important also to make sure that "such unbridled people, who are not accustomed to soberly thinking with their own mind, do not have access to power" and "only people having enough political will to be involved in a settlement process and having capabilities and potential to be involved in a settlement process have anything to do with the developments," Peskov said, in commenting on the situation in the Middle East and calls for striking Iran.