Kuala Lampur, June 18 -- G7 leaders urged de-escalation but did not condemn Israel's attack on Iran.

Extraordinarily, they affirmed Israel's right to self-defence after the regime's pre-emptive attack on Iran's nuclear enrichment programme.

Under international law, a country may only defend itself from an actual or imminent armed attack by another country.

Israel's claim that its attack is necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and using them in the future does not hold water.

And G7 leaders are defending a claim that does not hold water.

Iran has not built and has no single nuclear weapon; it did not attack Israel prior to Israel's strikes.

There may have been inflammatory and even genocidal rhetorics by Iranian o...