War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stopped
The latest escalation between the United States, Israel and Iran threatens to ignite a regional war with global consequences. As leaders trade accusations and missiles, the humanitarian, economic and geopolitical costs of the conflict are already becoming clear.
A Conflict That Risks Global Economic and Humanitarian Fallout
The attack on Iran by the US Trump regime and the Israeli apartheid regime are war crimes that threaten another economic and humanitarian crisis.
The only beneficiaries will be the oligarchy that rules the United States empire for their own domination and profit.
The Assassination That Escalated the Iran War
The foul assassination of 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and other Iranian leaders fits a long pattern of U.S. imperialism murdering leaders of the Global South who resist its domination. More than a century ago, white U.S. Marines in blackface murdered Haitian resistance leader Charlemagne Péralte. In 2011, Washington directed militias to brutally murder Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. From Haiti to Libya to Iran, the methods change, but the objective does not.
International Reactions and the Silence of Allies
Rather than condemn the attack, the New Zealand government gave its full support. Meanwhile the genocide against Palestinians continues without a whimper of opposition by the New Zealand government.
The Cuban government is absolutely correct in calling these bloody Pentagon actions “treacherous aggression.” The People’s Republic of China is calling for an immediate stop to the U.S. aggression.
Thousands of poor and working people in Western Asia are guaranteed to die unless we stop the warmongers in the White House and Pentagon. Trump is also signing a death sentence for U.S. GIs and sailors.
The attacks on Iran began while the United States was still in negotiations with Iran. It was the same story last June when Trump bombed Iran, killing almost 1,200 people, including schoolchildren. This is an old U.S. tactic that was often used during centuries of genocidal wars against Indigenous nations.
Growing Opposition to the War
Polls have shown that at least 75% of people in the U.S. don’t want a new war. Dictator Trump refuses to even get congressional authorisation for this new imperialist slaughter.
Trump claims the Islamic Republic of Iran is a threat to world peace and must be stopped from developing nuclear weapons. For 30 years, the same stale, lying claims have come from different U.S. administrations as well as from apartheid “Israel.”
It’s no more true today. The Iranian government has repeatedly said it is not developing any nuclear bombs.
The United States is the only country in history to have used nuclear weapons, killing hundreds of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The U.S. even refuses to rule out the first use of these weapons that can kill millions.
The real threat to world peace is the billionaire-controlled United States government, which bombed seven different countries within the last year: Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.
Both Trump and Biden supplied the bombs to Netanyahu that have killed more than 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza (confirmed deaths, Lancet puts the death toll at 300,000 to 377,000). Trump wants to repeat this genocide in Iran.
The Political and Economic Forces Behind War
Our enemies are in the White House and the corporate boardrooms.
- It’s not the Islamic Republic of Iran that killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
- It’s not Iran that has fired hundreds of thousands of union members who work for the federal government — Donald Trump and Elon Musk did.
- The Iranian government isn’t kicking millions of poor people off Medicaid and SNAP food benefits. It’s the Congress and White House that are committing these crimes.
- Gasoline prices are already rising, handing windfall profits to Big Oil — the same oil and gas billionaires who have long pushed for war on Iran. The oil and gas billionaires want a war just as they want to take over the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and control that nation’s oil.
Resistance to the Trump regime is growing. A general strike hit Minneapolis after the Ice murders.
For peace and justice in the world, it is the white supremacist Trump regime that must be overthrown not the Islamic Republic of Iran.
As anyone with a brain can see, the USA has been, and still ism, biggest threat to world peace, especially since the end of WWll when they were able to dominate due to escaping all the war damage suffered by European countries and with a strong economy. Being left as the sole superpower after the implosion of the Soviet Union just increased their sense of entitlement. arrogance and hubris. As they say, pride comes before a fall, and it’s going to be a huge fall, not before time. I cut my activist teeth as an anti Vietnam War protester (or as the Vietnamese call it, the American War), my negative opinions of the USA were formed then and these have only intensified over time.
35000 plus innocent Iranians killed within the last month in Iran by Ayatollah. No genocide protests I see. Instead Iran shiuld be left alone! Give me a break.
Do you know their names? The quality of information from a conflict zone is always unreliable. You failed to mention that it was US and Israeli agents along with the sanctions against Iran that were the main factors behind the internal trouble in Iran. I support the local population having the right to elect a new government and Iran did fail in providing that ability however having the US and Israel going to war against them with no clear alternative government would suggest that they have motives that don’t include making life easier for the Iranians.
Well that has been the justification for letting them and the rest of the region suffer for the last 40 years because of the tyranny of the Mullahs. Prayers only get you so far Bonnie. Bye bye merchants of hate… Ayatollah dipshit, Sinwar brothers, Haniyeh, Assad, Nasrallah et al.
What you say has nothing whatsoever to do with Trumps illegal war, none. Your righteousness doesn’t flow onto the hardship this coalition has imposed on NZ. You don’t need a break, you need perspective.
Pull the other one Sammy. Is Israel rushing to attack Iran to defend the Iranian population? Trump is already saying that they attacked because Iran was going to attack first. It’s all complete bullshit. Of course the Ayatollah being taken out is hard to get upset about but don’t tell me the US and Israeli care one iota about the Iranian people.
No protests? You must get out more. Give me a break.
I have no sympathy for either regime, if cult fanatical Christians want to fight fantical Islamic fundamentalists, let them burn their own people and resources away and leave the rest of us out of it.
No war has ever been won by air power alone.
If you don’t have ‘boots on the ground’, no matter how much destruction is rained down, who ever emerges alive from the rubble, will be the people who control the ground.
The Israelis understand this, which is why the IDF troops had to invade to complete the genocide in Gaza.
The photos of the destruction coming out of Iran seem to be showing the same sort of mass destruction we have seen in Gaza.
But no matter how long it lasts, or how widespread the destruction becomes, or how big the death toll from the bombing becomes, inevitably the US will either have to make a deal with the current government of Iran, or send in the troops to take over and occupy the country.
Iran is a seething viper’s nest that has poisoned global peace for over a generation, so President Trump has unleashed the apocalyptic fury of American might! Evil demands to be scorched by righteous hellfire. Iran festers as a demonic breeding pit of terror and venomous hatred against God’s eternally chosen fortress of Israel and the sacred Christian virtues we hold dear.
Just as God hurled blazing brimstone upon the sinful cesspools of Sodom and Gomorrah, America must obliterate those who dare assault liberty, faith, and divine harmony. This ain’t mere politics, it’s full-throttle spiritual Armageddon! Trump, anointed by the Almighty Himself, stands as the divine warrior to safeguard freedom from the abyss!
Blah blah blah, supporting a rapist and a convicted felon is great Christian virtues.
Do you know their names? The quality of information from a conflict zone is always unreliable. You failed to mention that it was US and Israeli agents along with the sanctions against Iran that were the main factors behind the internal trouble in Iran. I support the local population having the right to elect a new government and Iran did fail in providing that ability however having the US and Israel going to war against them with no clear alternative government would suggest that they have motives that don’t include making life easier for the Iranians.
Jesus said that His kingdom is not of this world so why would He appoint the sinner Trump to do His work?
“May Jesus smile down on the unforgiving, merciless, death-oriented, non-woke, super-lethal troops of America as they hunt down and kill everybody in their path who ever hurt them. It’s what he would have wanted.”
Pathetic Mary.
Well said Zelda.