22 Nations Demand Iran Cease Plotting Attacks Abroad

A coalition of 22 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and multiple European nations, jointly demanded on Wednesday that Iran immediately cease what they described as "lethal plotting and other malign actions" on their soil. The statement accuses Iran's security services of orchestrating a campaign of assassination plots, kidnappings, harassment, and intimidation targeting Iranian dissidents, journalists, and Jewish and Israeli communities across Europe, North America, and Australia.

The countries specifically named Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Organization, its foreign operations branch known as the Quds Force, and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security as responsible for these activities. They condemned what they called the "deplorable" relationship between Iranian security services and international and local criminal groups used to carry out operations. The statement declared that such attempts to attack people on their soil undermine national sovereignty and violate international norms.

The joint declaration also condemned a recent series of attacks across Europe targeting Jewish communities, Iranian journalists,...