{"id":13231,"date":"2026-05-17T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/17\/eu-bombing-iran-energy-facilities-no-solution\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:38:43","slug":"eu-bombing-iran-energy-facilities-no-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/17\/eu-bombing-iran-energy-facilities-no-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Warns Bombing Iran\u2019s Energy Facilities Won&#8217;t Resolve Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief described the situation in West Asia as \u201cdangerous\u201d and stated that targeting Iran\u2019s energy facilities cannot resolve the ongoing crisis and might even complicate matters further. He expressed hope for a reduction in tensions between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Kaja Kallas, speaking at a press conference regarding the potential resumption of attacks by the US and Israel against Iran, said that bombing energy infrastructure offers no political solution. According to her, such actions could have broader regional consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The European official also noted the rise in energy prices following recent tensions but added that the increase has had no significant impact on European countries. At the same time, she claimed some of Iran\u2019s military activities have raised concerns among neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>In response, a senior spokesperson for the Iranian Armed Forces warned against threats from the US president, emphasizing that any new military action would be met with a severe response. He stated that if these threats were carried out, American assets and military forces would face new and surprising scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Tehran and Washington continue as international observers stress the need to de-escalate and seek diplomatic solutions to prevent further instability in West Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU warns that bombing Iran&#8217;s energy facilities won&#8217;t solve the crisis and may worsen tensions between the US and Iran in West Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}