As the full scale of civilian casualties from the recent US-Israeli military strikes on Iran becomes clearer — including the bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Minab and Gandhi Hospital in Tehran — prominent academics, trade union leaders, and geopolitical analysts from Australia, Uruguay, and Italy have voiced strong outrage. They have condemned the attacks as criminal, pretext-less aggression, war crimes, and a dangerous escalation that threatens global peace, while expressing deep solidarity with the Iranian people and confidence in their resistance.
1. Australian Professor Condemns “Criminal” Attacks and Expresses Solidarity with Iran
Dr. Tim Anderson, an Australian university professor, political activist, and Director of the Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, has expressed both condemnation and deep grief over the US-Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Dr. Anderson specifically denounced the bombing of the school in Minab, which killed many schoolgirls, and the bombing of Gandhi Hospital in Tehran. He described these actions as the kind of brutality expected from the United States, but still shocking due to the complete lack of pretext and open contempt for human life.
“Really, they have no regard for human beings and human life,” he said, adding that most people around the world — especially after the Gaza genocide — now regard the US and Israeli regimes as “criminals and enemies of humanity.”
Dr. Anderson offered his deepest sympathy to the Iranian people for the terrible suffering they are enduring. He expressed trust that the resistance will vindicate Iran, force the enemy to retreat and surrender, and ultimately help destroy what he called “this terrible cancer in the region — the Israeli regime.”
He concluded with a message of full solidarity: “All my solidarity to the Iranian people and their brave military and to the Islamic Republic of Iran!”
2. Uruguayan Trade Union Strongly Condemns New Imperialist War
Uruguay’s National Union of Sea Workers and Related Workers (SUNTMA) has issued a firm statement condemning the US and Israeli attack on Iran, describing it as the beginning of a new imperialist war that puts the entire world at risk and raises the threat of a wider global conflict.
The union rejected the euphemism of “preemptive strike,” calling it nothing more than impunity for attacking a country that was not at war. It pointed out that the first missiles on Tehran caused hundreds of civilian casualties, including more than 60 schoolgirls.
SUNTMA criticized US leaders for treating children as worthless, linking this attitude to the impunity revealed in the Epstein files. The union stated that the decline of the capitalist model is generating multiple crises, while a multipolar world is emerging with Iran playing a central role as a strategic partner of Russia and China.
From SUNTMA, we condemn the actions of the US and Israel, which add to the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the invasion of Venezuela, and the blockade on Cuba. The union saluted the heroic Iranian people and mourned the martyrdom of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during the holy month of Ramadan.
3. Italian Geopolitical Scholar: US and Israel Are “International Gangsters”
Daniele Perra, an Italian essayist and geopolitical scholar, has issued a powerful condemnation of what he called the “criminal and illegitimate aggression” by the “international gangsters” — the United States and the Zionist occupation regime — against Iran.
Perra noted that this was the second attack on Iran in less than a year, carried out even during peace and negotiation talks, revealing the fraudulent nature of US foreign policy and the constant violation of international law. He pointed out that US wars in the last two decades alone have caused millions of innocent victims worldwide.
In the first hours of this latest crime, he said, hundreds of Iranian children were killed, schools (including the Minab school) and hospitals (Gandhi Hospital in Tehran) were bombed, and even cultural monuments such as Golestan Palace were targeted.
Perra expressed hope that Iran will successfully resist this brutal aggression, believing it could finally end the arrogance and crimes of these “two satanic manifestations in the global order.” He concluded with a prayer: “May God bless and help Iran,” and sent “all my love to the Iranian people that resists,” from Iglesias, Sardinia.