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.