International People’s Assembly

The International People’s Assembly strongly condemns the military strikes taken against Iran in the early morning of February 28th by the United States and Israel. This attack, conducted without clear justification, is an act of war that against all the peoples of the region and threatens an even wider and more destructive conflict after two and half years of genocidal war against the people of Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.

These imperialist strikes represent a violation of Iran’s sovereignty. This latest intervention is another attempt to impose regime change and advance a zionist agenda aimed at reshaping the region to benefit U.S. strategic interests. It follows a pattern of recent military interventions by the Trump administration around the world, including the strikes against Venezuela that resulted in the killing of hundreds of people and the kidnapping of President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, as well as an ongoing fuel blockade against Cuba.

We call upon social movements, political parties, labor unions, and all people of conscience around the world to demonstrate their opposition to this aggression. It is essential to uphold the principle that sovereign nations have the right to determine their own future.

Originally published at ipa-aip.org/statements/stop-the-us-israel-war-on-iran

No Cold War Condemns Israel and US Military Aggression Against Iran

On 28 February, Israel and the United States launched military strikes on various targets in Iran. Israel and the United States claimed that they fired ‘pre-emptively’. But there was nothing pre-emptive about these strikes, since Iran has neither threatened Israel nor the United States, nor has Iran built up its military capacity to do so. These strikes are an act of aggression, a violation of the United Nations Charter. Iran has said repeatedly that it is uninterested in attaining nuclear weapons, and it has negotiated in good faith with the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union to prevent any continuation of conflict. Both Israel and the United States have acted in bad faith, uninterested in negotiations and only focused on war.

No Cold War condemns these military strikes on Iran. We call upon the United Nations Security Council to convene an immediate session to deliberate on the violation of the UN Charter, namely Article 2 that protects the sovereignty of each member states, including Iran.

Originally published at nocoldwar.org/news/no-cold-war-condemns-israel-and-us-military-aggression-against-iran