SRINAGAR: Political parties in Kashmir, including the governing National Conference, condemned Israel’s attack on Iran on Friday, saying “the silence of influential countries like the US on this issue is alarming”.J&K CM Omar Abdullah said Iran had not provoked Israel in any manner to justify its offensive and this amounted to waging war against another nation. “What Israel has done is very similar to what Russia did in Ukraine,” he told reporters here.“The world raised its voice against Russia and launched campaigns condemning its actions. But when Israel attacks Iran, global powers, including the US and European countries, remain silent. If it is wrong for one country to invade another in Russia’s case, then it is equally unjustified for Israel to attack Iran,” he said.Omar said there would be immediate repercussions of the attack. “It affects our fuel prices, impacts the stock market, disrupts flight routes to the West, and more importantly, it stirs public sentiment.”Slamming Israel, NC MP Aga Ruhullah said: “Iran, like any sovereign nation, now has every right to defend itself and take full, punishing revenge. The Zionist regime should pay for its crimes in Gaza, for its bloodlust, for its massacres.”PDP president Mehbooba Mufti wrote on X that Israel’s attack is yet another brazen act by a state that ‘appears to have gone rogue’. “The silence of the global community, particularly western powers led by the United States, is both alarming and telling. This silence amounts to tacit approval. In the case of India-Pakistan tensions, the US never fails to assert that its intervention has been crucial in preventing escalation. Yet, when it comes to Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza or its latest strike on Iran, that same urgency is conspicuously missing,” Mehbooba said.She said equally disturbing is the “deafening silence of the so-called Muslim countries, who remain shamelessly non-existent in the face of such grave injustice”.People’s Conference’s Imran Reza Ansari said the “calculated act of aggression of Israel is not merely a political provocation but an assault on the very ideals of justice, sovereignty, and intellectual resistance”.