ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday condemned Israel’s “unjustified” attacks against Iran, warning that it undermines regional stability hours after Tel Aviv targeted the country’s nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two Middle East adversaries.
Israel launched strikes on Tehran early Friday, with black smoke being seen rising from the nation’s main nuclear enrichment facility. Multiple sites around the country were hit, with the leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard confirmed dead, Iranian state television reported. The development would serve as a body blow to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate escalation of the nations’ long-simmering conflict.
Israeli leaders cast the preemptive assault as a fight for the nation’s survival and necessary to head off what they described as an imminent threat that Iran would build nuclear bombs. It remains unclear how close the country is to achieving that.
“Strongly condemn unjustified Israeli attacks on Islamic Republic of Iran which is a brazen violation of Iran’s sovereignty,” Dar wrote on social media platform X.
Dar said the “abhorrent action” had violated international law and “gravely undermines” regional stability and international security.
