UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a blunt warning at the Security Council stakeout, saying the Middle East war is “out of control” and threatening wider regional and global fallout. He urged an end to escalation, announced a new UN envoy, and linked the conflict directly to rising risks for energy, food security and civilian lives.

Israel said overnight airstrikes in Tehran killed Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, though Iranian state media had not immediately confirmed his death.

The Security Council met under the shadow of renewed violence along the Israel-Lebanon border, with U.N. officials warning that recent escalation has erased months of progress, displaced hundreds of thousands, and pushed the region closer to a wider war.