Condemning the US-Israel attack on Iran, the National Shoora Council yesterday (1) warned that Sri Lanka would be among many countries that were certain to be badly affected by the latest war launched by the US and Israel.

The following is the text of the statement issued by them: “The National Shoora Council (NSC) condemns the unleashing of an unprovoked war on Iran by Israel and the United States of America, beginning Saturday 28th February that would result in countless deaths of innocent civilians across the Middle East, endangering also the lives of millions of marginalized Asians, including Sri Lankans, employed in the Arab world, while escalating further the oil prices that would economically hit countries world-wide.

On Saturday morning, Israel attacked a school in South Iran killing nearly 60 girls, students in the primary school. The US followed by bombing the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader killing Iran’s leader Imam Khamenei, aimed at forcible regime change in the Islamic Republic, launched by these foreign colonising powers.

Sri Lanka, struggling to come out of economic bankruptcy would be amongst the worst hit, by this reckless US-Israeli war in the Middle East, let loose by the world’s arms mafia, hours after the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejoiced with Israeli PM Netanyahu, having signed 16 Agreements of Cooperation with Israel, globally perceived as an apartheid State, that had destroyed Palestine and committed to systemically grabbing Arab lands in the rest of the Middle East.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s controversial speech delivered at the Munich Security Conference on February 14th is being seen as reigniting settler colonial control of non- white people worldwide as the dominant US-European strategy for the next hundred years! The US and Israel have already marginalised the United Nations (UN) to the detriment of third world countries!

Some of these ‘bleeders of blood of the innocents’ are using their deadly white supremacist militant   State power, to decide through recourse to wars, as to who should rule across the globe, sovereign nations of others! Their endless wars over the past 200 years have brought disaster to third world countries one after the other, while enriching the arms exporting countries.

Israel and the US have opened another murderous war in the ME, that would adversely affect the life of every man woman and child in the world, but would be shamelessly watched with indifference by the leaders of religions, civil societies and governments everywhere as if mass killings are normalized for the unarmed.”