SAEDNEWS: What began as a brazen pre‑dawn assault on Iranian soil has spectacularly backfired, exposing Israel’s isolation and galvanising a broad coalition of states in condemnation.
According to Saed News, the June 13 air raid by Israeli forces on Tehran’s nuclear facilities—though swiftly denounced by a handful of Western capitals invoking the “right to self‑defence”—has paradoxically yielded a diplomatic rout. Between June 13 and 23, more than thirty countries, spanning Russia, China, India, Turkey and members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and BRICS, issued either solo or multilateral rebukes. Some went further—Yemen pledged defensive cooperation, while Turkey’s president and Pakistan’s defence minister conveyed personal solidarity.
By contrast, fewer than ten states, chiefly G7 members and their close allies, lent Israel qualified support, coupling praise of “self‑defence” with calls for de‑escalation. This minority was outnumbered nearly four to one, and its insistence on restraint betrays unease over further instability.
Crucially, group communiqués—from an extraordinary Islamic summit to BRICS declarations—carrie far greater heft than isolated statements. They demand independent inquiries by the IAEA, envisage UN Security Council engagement and hint at binding regional mechanisms for conflict management.
The near‑unanimous censure among Islamic nations (bar a few abstentions) underscores the potency of bloc diplomacy in West Asia. By transforming disparate objections into a cohesive consensus, Tehran has not only defied narratives of its isolation but also undermined Israel’s hybrid‑war strategy.
As the dust settles, the balance of power in regional diplomacy appears to have shifted. Israel’s military gambit may have secured territory, but it has conceded the moral high ground—and ceded influence over the international institutions designed to arbitrate such crises.
