MUI Chief: US-Israel Attacks on Iran Undermine Board of Peace Legitimacy
Sudarnoto Abdul Hakim, head of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Foreign Relations division, has assessed that US-Israeli military attacks against Iran constitute a genuine threat to efforts to strengthen genuine peace and global order. According to him, the strikes have also caused the Board of Peace (BoP) chaired by US President Donald Trump to lose legitimacy.
“This attack is concrete evidence that Trump is actually a destroyer and wrecker of peace. Consequently, the BoP increasingly loses moral, political, and even legal legitimacy because it has proven ineffective in creating genuine peace, let alone justice,” he said in a statement received by Republika on Sunday.
According to him, Trump is truly an actor who has hijacked the word “peace” solely for his hegemonic and imperialist ambitions. “Given the attacks on Iran, Trump and his BoP cannot be trusted as a body fighting for peace and Palestinian independence,” he continued.
Sudarnoto emphasised that not only Iran has been sacrificed to Israeli-American hegemonic-imperialist ambitions. But the Gulf region and even other parts of the world have also suffered negative and destructive impacts. “This is indeed part of a larger geopolitical configuration in which Israel and America are the parties that must be held accountable.”
The US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which began early Saturday (28 February 2026), are clearly a systematic effort to weaken Iran’s strategic position in the region and prevent Iranian support for the Palestinian cause, according to him. This is also a way to exert political pressure to ensure Israeli regional dominance over Palestine.
“This American-Israeli aggression will trigger regional war, particularly in the Middle East. This is what Israel-America intends—for the Middle East to be completely paralysed so that Palestine and the broader Middle East ultimately fall under Israeli-American control.”
In light of this, he believes Indonesia should not become involved and must firmly reject all acts of military aggression, uphold international law, and pursue peaceful resolution based on justice.