MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Assessment under international law of Israel’s and the USA’s attacks on Iran – E-002616/2025

Question for written answer  E-002616/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Fabio De Masi (NI)

• 1.What view does the Commission take, in respect of international law, of Israel’s attack on Iran given the Washington Post’s[1]revelations that it was not preceded by an imminent threat from nuclear weapons and that other reasons were decisive?
• 2.Does the Commission share the view of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who qualified the US attack on Iran as ‘decisive action’ and ‘truly extraordinary’ in a text message to Donald Trump[2]?

Submitted: 30.6.2025

• [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/23/netanyahu-iran-attack-nuclear-intelligence/
• [2] https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausland/nato-gipfel-trump-rutte-sms-100.html