The Foreign Ministry announced that Foreign Minister Gideon Saar is currently conducting a marathon of diplomatic talks with his counterparts around the world regarding the cabinet's decision "to remove the Iranian threat of annihilation" and the IDF's subsequent actions. It was also reported that the Foreign Ministry has shifted to emergency mode and opened an emergency operations center coordinating all Israeli diplomatic missions worldwide. "Israel's diplomatic missions will operate politically and communicatively in all arenas to create a framework of political legitimacy for the military operation," the statement said.