Grand Imam of Al-Azhar posts in Persian for the first time to condemn Zionist aggression against Iran

CAIRO – 20 June 2025: Prof. Dr. Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, one of the top Islamic Sunni institutes in the Middle East, posted - in Persian for the first time- condemning the ongoing Zionist aggression against.

The Grand Imam warned against the Zionist entity's attempts to spread chaos in the region and transform it into an arena for conflict and war.

Sheikh Ahmed Al Tayeb emphasized that the systematic attacks and ongoing rampage by this usurping, aggressive Israeli occupation aim to drag the entire region to the brink of explosion and ignite a full-scale war in which only the blood and arms dealers will win.

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar's tweet read: " 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, acts that 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. The international community’s silence in the face of this tyranny, and its failure to put an end to it, amounts to complicity in the crime. Such inaction yields nothing but a growing threat to global security. War cannot create peace!"

Since the outbreak of the war between Iran and Israel on June 13, Egypt has exerted tremendous diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the conflict in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands were injured. 

The war started when Israel, which has nuclear weapon and not a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), launched missile and drones towards Tehran and killed hundreds of nuclear scientists, military leaders and civilians to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Israeli missiles and drones have targeted several nuclear facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, Arak and Fordow, causing a minor level of radiation leakage in Natanz as it was reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Israel, which is totally backed by the US, seeks to be the only country in the region that has nuclear weapons. In retaliation, Iran fired hundreds hypersonic missiles and drones on Israel, causing severe damage to buildings besides the Weizmann Institute of Science, Haifa refinery, and the Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park.

Israel, which continues its genocidal war on Gaza despite its war with Iran, attempts to draw the US in its conflict with Iran to also topple the Iranian Islamic regime, led by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. However, Tehran, along with its regional allies in the Middle East in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, threatened if the US entered the war, the US interests in the Middle East will be targeted.