Rome, 28 February (LaPresse) – ‘As far as I know, we were warned after the attack had begun.’ This was Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's comment on the attack on Iran. ‘We have just made a call as a government. It is clear that the diplomatic route is always preferable,’ he added, speaking during a visit to a Lega gazebo in Milan. "If the United States is certain that the Iranian Islamist regime is getting closer to the atomic bomb, they have decided to intervene. We are following the situation and are concerned with protecting civilians, starting with the Italians who are in Iran."