The Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) expresses its absolute condemnation of the criminal attack carried out against the Iranian capital and other areas of Iran, in violation of international law and the United Nations Charter, endangering the lives of the Iranian people and the entire Arab region.
As an international women’s organization that for 80 years, through its affiliated organizations in every region of the world and within the United Nations system, has worked for women’s rights, international justice, disarmament and peace, WIDF is deeply concerned and alarmed by this dramatic military escalation unleashed by the Israeli right wing extremist government using the Iranian nuclear program as a pretext, which could have repercussions that can once again plunge the Middle East into a vertigo of blood and destabilization, with catastrophic results for all the peoples of the region and the entire world.
We express our full solidarity with our Iranian sisters and all the women, children and civilians of Iran affected by the treacherous bombings and drone strikes announced and carried out by Israel in close cooperation with the United States, that is causing bloodshed among the population of the territories concerned, including in Israel.
We strongly support the peoples of the region who continue to suffer the brutal destabilization and raise our voices in condemnation of the war machine commanded by Israel and the United States and their allies, while denouncing the cowardice of Western governments that babble unfounded justifications and are slow to distance themselves and break their political, commercial and military relations with Israel and its expansionist and colonialist ambitions.
The attacks against Iran are only the latest act in a destructive plan that has its epicenter in the action of annihilation of Palestine, which the government and army of Israel are carrying out with unprecedented ferocity in disregard of all international and humanitarian law, massacring the civilian population including thousands of defenceless children, women and elderly people.
Civilian structures, health centres, schools are deliberately hit. UN and humanitarian workers operating in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories are hit with impunity, in violation of all international law, to prevent them from continuing to operate to help Gaza’s civilian population.
No one can sit idly by; no one can remain silent. Silence is complicity.
We demand that the blockade of aid to Gaza’s people be lifted! That the massacre of Palestinian people be stopped! Stop the killing of aid workers, health workers and journalists!
We demand that the United Nations intervene to end the extermination of the population of Gaza and that aid can finally reach the exhausted and hungry Palestinian population unhindered.
We demand that the UN Security Council pronounce a clear condemnation of the Israeli aggression against Iran.
We denounce the attempt by a few predatory states to annihilate the role of the UN, as an organ of all the peoples of the Earth who defend peace and international justice and want to stop barbarism and war.
We denounce the criminal role that Israeli colonial expansion plays in global rearmament, and we denounce the complicity of NATO governments, primarily in providing military support and equipment in the midst of the ongoing genocide, with Israel’s current military offensive and its genocidal practice in Palestine.
Ahead of the NATO meeting in The Hague on June 24-25 to decide to drastically increase spending on rearmament, intensify the process of militarization and prepare for war, we call on the international community to intervene to stop and escalation that exposes the entire world to the risk of an irreparable catastrophe, and open the way to diplomacy and shared disarmament actions.
We call on the UN to promote an effective and shared peacekeeping operation, aimed at an immediate ceasefire and recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, respecting the will expressed by the peoples of the world through numerous General Assembly resolutions.
We firmly call on governments that have signed trade agreements with Israel to rescind them and support the International Court of Justice on its path to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Faithful to the oath made at our foundation 80 years ago – “Never again fascism, never again war!” – we stand by the resistance of the Palestinian people and all peoples who love coexistence, progress and peace, including the forces in Israel struggling against the occupation and war. We participate in the international action of humanitarian and peace movements aimed at reaffirming human rights, international justice, cooperation, solidarity with oppressed peoples and peace.
Humanity is at a dramatic crossroads. Peace is not an option – it is the only condition for human survival and civilization.
WIDF, June 16, 2025
[Photo: WIDF President Lorena Peña]
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