Mass protests in Tehran, Iran, on June 14, 2025, denouncing US-backed Israeli aggression

On Thursday, June 12, Israel launched a pre-planned criminal aggression against Iran. Israeli-US fighter jets, with the support of Israeli Mossad agents who had infiltrated inside Iran and with US and British intelligence and logistics support bombed over 100 locations across Iran overnight. They continued during the day, dangerously targeting nuclear sites and top Iranian officials and scientists killing hundreds of people including 60 civilians, killings which included 20 children in one strike on an apartment block. Israel has continued its attempt at criminally bombing of Iran every day since whilst Iran has justly responded shooting down several Israeli-US fighter bombers and firing missiles to destroy military sites in Israel to end this aggression against Iran.

This attack by the genocidal Israeli regime on Iran as a matter of fact has had the full military and intelligence involvement of the US and Britain, supplying extra air defences and weapons to Israel through Britain's base in Cyprus and in many cases having to divert these weapons away from the NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. Facts are still emerging, but already it was reported that a British destroyer was used to help guide Israeli missiles towards Iranian territory with this destroyer being forced to move away from Iranian waters by the Iranian navy [1]. Also, Britain has deployed Typhoon jets and Voyager refuelling aircraft to the Middle East as part of what Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as "contingency support" amid the escalating Israel-Iran conflict. This is despite the despicable lies that Foreign Secretary David Lammy reported to Parliament on Monday that "the United Kingdom was not involved in the strikes against Iran". Lammy went on to claim that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was "now at the G7 Summit in Canada, discussing with our closest allies how to ease tensions." There was no condemnation of the attack on Iran in line with Britain's obligations to uphold international law.

It also came as no surprise that the Group of Seven (G-7) [2], including Britain, prepared a statement on Saturday, June 14, that was published Monday, June 16 (due to the delay in US President's Trump change of mind in first not signing it then agreeing to sign it), expressing support for Israel. The statement "recognised Israel's inherent right to defend itself" and criticised and "labelled its rival Iran as a source of instability in the Middle East". This tries to justify the unjustifiable. Israeli war crimes in Gaza have already killed at least 55,432 people - men, women and children. The G-7 statement refused even to condemn the latest state terrorist crime of the Israeli regime in its unprovoked attack on Iran. The Anglo-US backed Israeli regime is the real source of instability in the Middle East. Iran has always stood with the Palestinian people alongside the people of the world. It is further confirmation that all the peace-loving peoples and countries should condemn not only Israel but also the G-7 countries who have over the last 18 months exposed themselves as the Genocide-7 in the eyes of the people of the world.

On Tuesday, June 10, Britain the US and other western powers engaged in a well orchestrated preparation for Israel's attack on Iran later in the week. Some of these western powers, including the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, had formally submitted a resolution to the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) condemning Iran's so-called "non-compliance" with its nuclear obligations, a charge that Iran and its highest authorities completely denied. They were co-operating with the IAEA and they were directly in negotiations with the US planning to meet with the US negotiation team on Sunday, June 15. Yet on Thursday the US and Britain, as well as some of the G-7 assassins, assisted in covering for Israel in its aggression against Iran and even in its criminal bombing of the nuclear power facilities in Iran whilst the IAEA inspectors were reportedly in Iran.

Making a statement on Monday, June 16, to Parliament, Foreign Secretary David Lammy briefly mentioned that "Israel had launched extensive strikes across Iran. Targets including military sites, including the Iranian enrichment facility at Natanz, and key commanders and nuclear scientists." The Foreign Secretary acted as though Britain had no responsibility to condemn such a reckless and criminal action by Israel.

The British working class and people must demand that the government immediately condemn the Israeli regime's assault on Iran, its nuclear facilities and its assassinations of people in Iran. They must condemn the use of force to sort out problems.

Israel is a terrorist state committing genocide against the Palestine people whose land it occupies. The British government's support for arming Israel and supporting it as an "ally" must be ended. Britain must support Iran in exercising its right to self-defence and demand that Israel cease its attack on Iran and ends its genocide against the Palestinian people.

Hands off Iran!
Condemn the Use of Force to Sort Out Problems!
Stop Arming Israel!
Stop the Genocide Now!

Notes
1. Iran's Navy intercepts British destroyer in Indian Ocean as Starmer moves military assets to West Asia - First Post, June 15 2025
https://www.firstpost.com/world/irans-navy-intercepts-british-destroyer-in-indian-ocean-as-starmer-moves-military-assets-to-west-asia-13897352.html
2. Press release - Joint statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Charlevoix
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-of-the-g7-foreign-ministers-meeting-in-charlevoix

Link to Full Issue of Workers' Weekly

RCPB(ML) Home Page

Workers' Weekly Online Archive