In a statement on Israel’s attack on Iran, the Press Office of the CC of the KKE notes the following:

“Israel’s planned and targeted air and missile attack on Iran, resulting in the deaths of Iranian officials, nuclear scientists and hundreds of civilians, is fuelling the flames of war in the Middle East and threatening the peoples of the wider region with disaster. The attack was carried out under the pretext of Iran’s nuclear programme, but its real aim is to impose the imperialist plans of Israel and the USA on the wider region.

The murderous Israeli state is committing genocide against the Palestinian people, killing them en masse and condemning them to starvation. It is bombing Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, and is now escalating its attacks on Iran. The USA and the EU are supporting this state militarily, politically and economically, and are therefore complicit and jointly responsible.

The New Democracy government bears heavy responsibility, as do the bourgeois parties that cover up the criminal role of the Israeli state in the name of the right to self-defence, while consistently supporting our country’s military cooperation with a terrorist state. Moreover, it is well known that some of the joint military exercises between Greece and Israel involve scenarios and simulations of an attack on Iran.

Now that the risk of our country becoming embroiled in military adventures is growing, our people must intensify their struggle. They must demand that the Greek government immediately severs its military, political and economic relations with the murderous state of Israel and recognizes the Palestinian state. They should express even greater their solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the peoples of Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and the entire region.”

13.06.2025