Canadian PM says Iran conflict a failure of the international order

Canadian Prime ​Minister Mark Carney has said that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East was a failure of the international order and ‌that the United States had not consulted its allies before striking Iran. US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran on Saturday after negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The war has since spread beyond Iran’s borders, with Iranian attacks hitting Gulf states including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as ​US embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, prompting Washington to close diplomatic missions across the region. Whether the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes broke international law was "a judgment for others to make," he said.
"The current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order, despite decades of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency in a succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks," Carney said during a visit to Australia in a speech at the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney on Wednesday. "Iran's nuclear threat remains, and now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the U.N. or consulting with allies, including Canada." The Canadian prime minister stressed his country was not apprised beforehand of the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, in his first remarks since the war broke out on Feb. 28.
Canada supported efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and from threatening international peace and security, Carney said. The two countries haven't had relations for 15 years because of reported human rights abuses in Iran. Canada last year designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist entity.