Israel’s United Nations rep Gilad Erdan has demanded new sanctions be placed on Iran after its weekend attack. He was addressing an emergency Security Council meeting yesterday, which was called after Iran fired hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for a deadly strike on its embassy in Syria a fortnight ago. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic Republic’s ideological army, should also be designated a terrorist organisation, Erdan said. Iran’s UN envoy Amir Saeid Iravani hit back – he said the strikes were “Iran’s inherent right to self-defence” and that the country does “not seek escalation or war”. That’s a lot of back and forth, leading UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to warn that nations should be working towards peace. “It’s time to step back from the brink,” he said.