 After
Trump and Netanyahu launched an illegal and unprovoked war against
Iran, mounting pressure against another endless war forced Trump to
halt his aggression. At dawn on Tuesday, a ceasefire was reached, and
the Trump-Netanyahu war against Iran was curtailed.
The US-Israeli bombing campaign
succeeded in causing huge damage and many deaths in Iran but it failed
in achieving its stated military objectives. It’s important to
recognize certain factors: (1) the people of the United States, by a
large majority, oppose a new US war in the Middle East, causing Trump
to seek a rapid exit; (2) the Iranian people, representing many
different political viewpoints, rallied together in the face of this
unprovoked, foreign aggression against their country and the
population.
It is noteworthy that within 24
hours of Trump’s bombing of Iran’s civilian nuclear energy
facilities, a grassroots coalition was formed that brought people in
more than 30 cities inside the United States took to the streets in
protest under the banner “Stop the War against Iran.” Congressional
offices were flooded with calls, emails, and petitions of people
opposing the US war on Iran.
If Trump had continued in carrying
out this illegal war against Iran, it was likely that hundreds of
thousands and perhaps millions of people in the United States would
have gone into the streets. It is etched in the consciousness of the
people in the United States that the government lied to them about the
need to invade Iraq. Iraq did not possess nuclear weapons. Iran today
does not possess nuclear weapons. And it was Donald Trump in his first
term who ripped up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),
which allowed international inspectors to enter Iran’s nuclear energy
facilities and validate that Iran’s program was for civilian nuclear
energy and not for the energy of nuclear weapons.
Fourteen hours after Trump announced the US bombing of
Iran, of anti-war, Iranian, and Palestinian organizations rapidly came
together and called for a national mobilization in Washington, D.C.
for Saturday, June 28. Now that a ceasefire is in place, we are
suspending the national mobilization for now, but we will remain alert
and prepared.
Trump continues to stand by
Netanyahu as Israel wages a genocidal war against the Palestinian
people and threatens Iran and the entire region. Our struggle is far
from over. We will stay in the streets. We will continue to build the
anti-war and anti-genocide movement. We will continue pressuring
elected officials to pass the War Powers Resolution. And we will
remain in the streets, demanding that the U.S. stop the genocide and
lift the siege in Gaza, end all aid to Israel, and respect the
sovereignty and self-determination of all peoples and nations around
the world.
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