NEW YORK – After the United States and Israel launched a joint operation striking Iran, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) issued the following statement:
“The Islamic Republic of Iran, led by the Ayatollah and enforced by the IRGC, has long been the world’s leading state-sponsor of terror. If this regime were to gain nuclear capabilities while also enhancing its stockpile of ballistic missiles, it would constitute an existential threat to the people of Israel and billions more around the globe.
“The barrage of Iranian missiles and drones traveling toward Israel is material proof of the existential threat posed by Ayatollah Khamenei’s Islamic Republic to the Jewish State and to what remains stability in the Middle East.
“Since 1979, too many leaders have stood idle while this dictatorship has made a mockery of human rights, exported antisemitic conspiracies, and murdered its own people. And together with its web of proxies, it has made life unsafe for Jews everywhere.
“As the United States and Israel take brave military action, the World Jewish Congress calls on the international community to stand behind this historic effort and support further measures that end the ability of theocratic tyrants to inflict harm on the Iranian people and the world at large any longer.
“As rockets fill the sky, and as Israel, the United States, and regional partners act to prevent a devastating loss of life, our thoughts are with all those in the path of danger. We pray for their safety and stand firmly with those responding against this aggression.”
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