Statement by the European Peace Project on the Israeli/American attack on Iran:
The illegal war of aggression waged by Israel and the US against Iran is to be condemned in the strongest terms and cannot be justified under any circumstances. It has already ignited a conflagration that threatens to spread throughout the entire Gulf region, potentially leading to a nuclear escalation that threatens the very existence of the world, all because of Israeli and US nuclear weapons. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and US intelligence, Iran does not currently possess an active nuclear weapons program.
Just hours after the Omani foreign minister announced that Iran had agreed to a complete halt to uranium enrichment, Israel immediately bombed Tehran, and the US joined the attack. This demonstrates that the war was never about nuclear weapons and that the US president is either influenced by Netanyahu or is exploiting the conflict for domestic political reasons due to the upcoming midterm elections.
We call on all EU governments to take a clear and unequivocal stand, as Spain and Norway have done, for an immediate end to the Israeli and US attacks. Calls from figures like Starmer, Kiesewetter, Merz, and others for Britain, Germany, or other EU states to enter the war on the side of the aggressors Israel and the USA must be rejected in the strongest terms! The German government’s accommodating of the Israeli government jet with unknown passengers, possibly wanted by The Hague as war criminals, is also a scandal. When EU governments and mainstream media cover up the attacks on other countries and the murder of heads of state, scientists, and children instead of condemning them, they contribute to the erosion of international law and the rule of law. All states must now demand adherence to the prohibition of the use of force.
Nuclear weapons are fundamentally outlawed as illegal weapons of mass destruction under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. According to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which Iran has signed, the state has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Anyone concerned about security in the region and the world must disarm all existing nuclear weapons. This must begin with Israel’s nuclear weapons in order to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East. As long as weapons are produced, there is a risk that they will be used. Armament does not bring security, but rather the spiral of escalation into war. As demonstrated by the bombing of a school in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan on the very first day, every war carries war crimes within it, like a cloud carries rain. This is yet another reason why wars, i.e., the violent resolution of conflicts, must be avoided at all costs, and why conflicts must be resolved through dialogue, mutual understanding, and a balance of interests in negotiations. The “right of the stronger” currently being practiced belongs to the Stone Age and will lead us back to it if we do not put an immediate stop to it.
We, as the European Peace Project, together with the European people, stand by our post-World War II promise: “Never again war!” We bear the shared responsibility for the future-oriented transcendence of the most horrific experience of violence in the World Wars, which was achieved with the Charter of the United Nations: to resolve international disputes through peaceful means and according to the principles of balancing interests. In doing so, the sovereignty and self-determination of states must be respected, as must equality before the law. Regime changes imposed from the outside are contrary to international law, have already plunged Iraq, Libya, and Syria into chaos and state collapse, and must be condemned in principle.
We must not allow ourselves to be further drawn into the criminal wars of the USA or Israel, or to be made a target by US weapons and military bases on our European territory.