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The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday decisively adopted a Bahraini-led resolution condemning Iran’s regional attacks and rejected a Russian proposal seeking an end to the conflict in the Mideast.

These votes occurred as U.S. and Israeli forces continued bombarding Iran for a 12th day, with Iranian retaliation reverberating throughout the Middle East.

Thirteen out of the 15 member countries of the Security Council, including the United States, Britain and France, supported Bahrain’s resolution, proposed on behalf of six Gulf nations and Jordan. China and Russia abstained.

Russia’s U.N. representative, Vasily Nebenzya, said that his country’s proposal aimed to de-escalate and did not seek to lay blame for causes of the conflict to ensure its adoption. He called it “simple, direct and unequivocal in nature,” and said it urged an end to fighting, condemned strikes against civilians and civilian infrastructure, and called for negotiations.

Four countries on the Security Council voted in favor of it — Russia, China, Pakistan and Somalia. The United States and Latvia opposed, while France, Britain, Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Greece, Liberia and Panama abstained.