Al-Azhar grand imam condemns Israel's aggression against Iran in Persian statement

El-Sayed Gamal El-Din , Friday 20 Jun 2025

Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the world’s largest Sunni Islamic institution, has issued a forceful condemnation of Israel's ongoing actions against Iran, delivering his message not only in Arabic and English but, for the first time, in Persian on social media.

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“I strongly condemn the ongoing aggression by the occupying entity against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the systematic attacks and continued recklessness committed by this usurping aggressor and its backers,” he wrote on his social media accounts.

El-Tayyeb warned that such actions risk "dragging the region to the brink of explosion and igniting a full-scale war, from which only arms dealers and profiteers of bloodshed would benefit."

He also slammed the international community’s response, saying its "silence in the face of this tyranny, and its failure to put an end to it, amounts to complicity in the crime."

He added that such inaction "yields nothing but a growing threat to global security."

"War cannot create peace," he concluded.

His remarks come as the aerial confrontation between Israel and Iran enters its eighth consecutive day, with destruction and casualties mounting on both sides.

Meanwhile, investigative reports—such as Seymour Hersh’s recent piece detailing an alleged US-backed “all-out bombing campaign” against Iran, including plans to strike the heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility—suggest a broader escalation. 

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