Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who arrived in Tehran on August 4 on a rare visit to discuss rising tensions in the Middle East, said he was not carrying a message from Israel to Tehran, but he nevertheless pleaded for "peace, stability, and security" in the troubled region.
"I did not come to Tehran to convey a message from Israel to Iran or vice versa," Safadi was quoted by the Palestinian news agency Sama and Al-Jazeera as saying.
Jordan has generally good relations with neighboring Israel.
"My visit to Iran is to consult on the serious escalation in the region and to engage in a frank and clear discussion about overcoming the differences between the two countries with honesty and transparency," Safadi told a Tehran news conference alongside his Iranian counterpart, acting Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri Kani.
Safadi and Baqeri Kani spoke on the phone twice in the past two days to discuss developments in the Middle East after the assassination in Tehran of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the U.S.- and EU-designated Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Safadi's trip to Iran was the first by a Jordanian foreign minister since March 2015.
Fears that the Gaza war could turn into a wider regional conflict have intensified as Iran and its Lebanese Hizballah ally have vowed to avenge deadly strikes in Tehran and Beirut that Iran has blamed on Israel.
In Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran and its proxies against attacking his country and said that Israel was already in a "in a multifront war against Iran's axis of evil."
"I reiterate and tell our enemies: We will respond and we will exact a heavy price for any act of aggression against us, from whatever quarter," Netanyahu told his cabinet, according by his office.
After the meeting in Tehran, the Jordanian foreign minister said in a statement that Amman wants the Middle East region to be peaceful, secure, and stable and wants to see an end to the tensions.
Safadi also called for an end to the Gaza war and the continuation of negotiations for the recognition of the Palestinian state.
The statement called the assassination of Haniyeh an "escalatory step" and warned that a regional war would have a "devastating impact on all."
Israel has not taken responsibility for Haniyeh's killilng in the Iranian capital in what has become a major embarrassment to the authorities in Tehran.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on August 3 that a short-range projectile was behind the killing and accused the United States of supporting the attack, which it blamed on Israel.
The IRGC said in a statement that a rocket with a 7-kilogram warhead was used to target the residence of Haniyeh, who was the political leader of Hamas.
SEE ALSO: Iran Says 'Short-Range Projectile' Used In Assassination Of HaniyehCiting unnamed sources, The New York TImes reported that the blast that killed Haniyeh was a bomb covertly smuggled two months ago into the guesthouse where Haniyeh was staying in Tehran.
Separately, French President Emmanuel Macron and Jordan's King Abdullah II on August 4 agreed in a phone call that an escalation of military actions in the Middle East must be avoided "at all costs," the French presidency said.