Biden says he cannot be sure that all-out war in Middle East will be prevented

The US administration cannot assure that an all-out war in the Middle East region will be averted, US President Joe Biden told reporters in the White House.

"There’s a lot we are doing. The main thing we can do is try to rally the rest of the world and our allies into participating, like the French are in Lebanon and other places, to tamp this down," he said, adding that provided that Iran has "proxies as irrational as Hezbollah and the Houthis, it’s a hard thing to determine."