UN warns the escalation must not become a full war

The UN published Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Security Council remarks warning that wider attacks and deterioration could trigger full conflict, while Guardian and Anadolu carried the warning into the live strike cycle. The message adds a multilateral escalation ceiling to the U.S.-Iran, Israel-Lebanon, Gaza, and Hormuz tracks.

Why this matters. The UN warning does not stop strikes by itself, but it frames the crisis as a region-wide war-prevention problem rather than a sequence of bilateral retaliation claims. The watchpoint is whether Security Council pressure produces restraint language that Washington, Tehran, Israel, or Gulf hosts accept.