Twenty-two states - Macedonia among them - have sent a joint warning to Iran. The accusation is grave: that Tehran is running a campaign in which it hires international and local criminal gangs to carry out murders and terrorist attacks on foreign soil, across Europe, North America and Australia.

The list of signatories speaks for itself - Albania, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the US. When so many different countries sign the same statement, it usually means something more serious than diplomatic courtesy stands behind it.

The targets, according to the warning, aren't random. Under attack are Jewish communities in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Iranian and American opposition journalists in exile. The radical group HAYI claimed responsibility for knife attacks on Jews and for arson at synagogues in north London. Australia went furthest - it expelled the Iranian ambassador and closed its embassy in Tehran, after officially accusing Iran of having ordered antisemitic attacks, including a fire at a synagogue in Melbourne and at a kosher café in Sydney.

"Attempts at murder, kidnapping, harassment, intimidation or any other attacks on people on our soil directly undermine national sovereignty and international norms. These actions must stop immediately," the joint statement reads.

Why does this matter precisely for us? Because Macedonia isn't a sideline observer - it's on the list of signatories. That means our state too, at least on paper, counts among those that told Tehran they won't look away. The question that remains is whether the signature is backed by the capacity to recognize a threat like this if it ever comes closer - because "foreign soil" in a globalized world is more elastic than ever.