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Israel’s attack on Iran multiplies the dangers to security in our region and the world

13 June 2025, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia

Israel’s attack on Iran increases the dangers to peace and security in our region and the world. Israel adds to its record yet another flagrant disregard for the principles of international law and is intensifying its nightmarish threats to all the peoples of the region, including its own people. The aggression of the Netanyahu regime, alongside the genocide of the Palestinian people, is bringing the wider Middle East to the brink of total conflagration and destruction.

In particular, the strikes on nuclear facilities are causing incalculable and asymmetric dangers to human life and the environment in the region. The pretexts put forward by the US and Israel are hypocritical given that it is the US that in 2018 unilaterally withdrew from the international agreement to control Iran’s nuclear program and has since failed to reinstate it. More telling, of course, is the fact that it is Israel that refuses to join the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty and with the backing of the West has possessed a nuclear arsenal for decades. These developments make the call for nuclear disarmament more urgent than ever, especially in the fragile region of the Middle East.

AKEL underlines that in today’s conditions it is more obvious than ever before that the defence of international law and peace is not only a legal and moral imperative. It is essential for the survival of humanity itself. The Government of the Republic of Cyprus must convey in every direction the message that our country is not involved in any way in the military operations and, at the same time, to signal to the British Government our people’s opposition to any involvement of our island through the British bases.

13.06.2025

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