A number of prominent Western politicians have condemned the latest Israeli attacks on Iran, urging their governments to stop funding and supporting the Israeli regime and avoid being dragged into a war that has no public support among Western nations.
Key figures furious about the US’s unconditional support for the Israeli regime and its “war criminal” leader Benjamin Netanyahu include US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
Tlaib said the US must stop backing the Israeli “genocidal regime”, warning that “bombing Iran is a dangerous escalation that could lead to regional war.”
The Israeli government bombing Iran is a dangerous escalation that could lead to regional war. War Criminal Netanyahu will do anything to maintain his grip on power. We cannot let him drag our country into a war with Iran. Our government must stop funding and supporting this…
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) June 13, 2025
American Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar also voiced her anger over being dragged into a destructive war that “Americans don’t want”.
Just as talks with Iran were set to resume, Netanyahu launches a strike and declares a state of emergency.
— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) June 13, 2025
He is provoking a war Americans don't want.
We should not allow ourselves to be dragged into yet another conflict, against our will, by a foreign leader pursuing his own…
Moreover, British politician and Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn spoke of “a shameful failure of global leadership” to stop the Israeli regime from acting with total impunity.
The world could have stopped the genocide in Gaza.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 13, 2025
Instead, governments — including our own — allowed Israel to act with total impunity.
Israel’s reckless strikes on Iran are the product of that impunity. They represent a shameful failure of global leadership. And they are a…
In addition to Corbyn, former First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf said that Israel’s allies are assisting a leader that is “out of control.”
It is obviously not a coincidence that Israel has chosen to attack Iran at a time when the US & Iran were due to resume talks.
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) June 13, 2025
Israel's allies need to realise that Netanyahu - wanted by the ICC - is out of control, and a threat to peace in the region.
Clare Daly, a former member of the European Parliament, also denounced Israel’s killing of Iranian civilians as "barbarous lunacy."
We have to organise globally to stop this barbarous lunacy! Deranged psychopaths now slaughtering innocent Iranian children..Gaza, Syria, Lebanon..all with the support of US & UK..this escalation will not end well. NO WAR on IRAN... https://t.co/7gi7KTwH43
— Clare Daly (@ClareDalyIRL) June 13, 2025
The Israeli regime launched targeted assassinations of Iranian commanders and scientists, along with airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities across the country, in the wee hours of Friday morning.
Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami, Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of the central headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces, and Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the IRGC aerospace division commander, were among those martyred in a series of illegal attacks this morning.