On 16 June 2025, the National Shoora Council (NSC) of Sri Lanka issued an official statement strongly condemning the unprovoked and provocative attacks by the Zionist regime on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities. The statement calls on the Government of Sri Lanka and the international community to respond responsibly to this blatant act of aggression. Reflecting the views of a segment of Sri Lanka’s religious and social leadership, the statement was published in the reputable Daily Financial Times newspaper. Below is the full English translation of the article for interested readers. To access the original version, please refer to the following link: National Shoora Council condemns unprovoked Israeli aggression on Iran Monday, 16 June 2025 The National Shoora Council (NSC) in a media statement has condemned the several rounds of unprovoked Israeli aggression on Iran overnight Friday, 13 June, attacking multiple Iranian civilian nuclear targets, killing Iranian civilians and scientists. The NSC strongly condemns the dangerous Israeli attacks on Iran’s electricity-generating civilian nuclear plants, which could have resulted in extensive radiation leaks, causing death and destruction to millions in the region. US President Donald Trump must be equally condemned for admiring the Israeli attacks as “excellent’ as quoted by the BBC. The undeclared attacks were launched by “nuclear armed Israel,” provoking “non-nuclear armed Iran” into an uncalled-for war on the pretext of unresolved nuclear-related issues hitherto dealt with through dialogue by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Last Friday’s most dangerous Israeli aggression is worse than the 2003 invasion of Iraq with then US President George Bush backed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair falsely alleging Saddam Hussain Iraq’s Baath Party leader was armed with chemical and biological Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and deceptively claiming that Britain was only 45 minutes away from destruction from Saddam’s WMD. The NSC urged the Sri Lanka Government to condemn the Israeli attacks, promote dialogue through the IAEA in the interest of world peace and economic relief, and ensure the prompt and safe return of the 20,000 Sri Lankans sent by the previous Government to replace the Palestinians, thereby illegally aiding the Israeli settlers in the ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ in violation of the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. The NSC also said it welcomed the statements by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, New Zealand, Australia, China, Russia, the European Union (EU), and several other countries condemning and censuring the provocative Israeli bombing of Iran in multiple waves of attacks. The NSC also welcomed the statement of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CP) condemning ‘the Zionist aggression of the Islamic Republic of Iran,’ ‘calling upon the Sri Lanka Government to condemn the attack,’ ‘sever ties with the Zionist entity,’ and to take steps ‘to protect the Sri Lankan workers in the Middle East.’  Meanwhile, US Senator Bernie Sanders in a statement said: “The extremist Netanyahu’s Government has made the world more dangerous and unstable.” The Israeli aggression of Iran has already sent up world oil prices by nearly $ 10 within hours of the attack, settling for the present at $ 8, adversely threatening the economic revival of struggling economies like Sri Lanka and other third-world countries. The NSC urged Iran to be restrained in any unavoidable defensive responses as Israel and powerful Israel backers such as the US are run by right wing extremist leaders having their fingers on their nuclear arsenal, who could easily repeat Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Persian-Arab Middle East, possibly killing millions of innocent civilians and maiming for life millions of others. The NSC said it believes the silence of the majority of mankind over the wanton destruction ever since the unilaterally announced British-sponsored Balfour declaration of 1917 over the original Palestine, the killing and eviction of thousands of Palestinians by the Zionist terrorist gangs since then, and presently, the destruction of even the ‘Two State Solution’ by the Israeli entity since 1948, has continued to this day to embolden Israel to slaughter the unarmed Palestinian women and children in the hundreds by the day and to currently terrorise the rest of the Middle East.  https://www.ft.lk/news/National-Shoora-Council-condemns-unprovoked-Israeli-aggression-on-Iran/56-777759