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Where is the movement against the war on Iran?

“Brazil, in our hemisphere, largest country in the Western hemisphere south of us, cut a trade deal with China. They’re going to from now on, do trade in their own currencies, get right around the dollar. They’re creating a secondary economy in the world totally independent of the United States. We won’t have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won’t have the ability to sanction them.” Senator Marco Rubio – March 2023 Fox News. 

The system of war requires a docile, compliant uninformed population. A simple narrative of good versus bad and fabricated story can justify a war. The US is losing the leverage of economic sanctions to maintain global dominance and is resorting to military force. 

The current flood of propaganda and lies about “33,000 peaceful protesters” being killed by the government in Iran and the pro-Shah rallies are designed to justify the long planned war.  

The first false flag of lies during my life time still haunts America. Homeless Vietnam veterans are frequent guests at our Food Not Bombs meals in cities all across the country. The August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin “incident” sparked the American war against Vietnam.

Like many families across America we sat around our dinner table watching grainy black and white footage of young GIs being blown apart and Vietnamese families fleeing US soldiers armed with M-16s. Some nights it was the torching of reed roof homes or the carpet bombing of vast areas of farmland and forests. A daily horror beamed into our homes.

That horror was made real for me when my cousin Mr Lovejoy gave our family a tour of the Dover Airbase in Delaware. Tower after tower of silver metal caskets stacked 20 high and 20 deep marched for blocks down the tarmac outside the US military morgue waiting for another plane load of dead Americans.

The mortuary at the Dover Airbase is about to receive another flood of flag draped corpses.    

On February 14, 2026, Reuters reported,  “The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.”  At least 50,000 US soldiers have been deployed to the region. 

It seems many Americans are slow to learn. It wasn’t that long ago when we were lied into war. William Powell’s fake yellow cake at the UN and former-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s claim that, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” was enough to launch the March 19, 2003 Shock and Awe bombing of Baghdad, starting a war that killed a million people. A war that has left Iraq a failed state. 

When I joined the early January protest in Santa Cruz against the ICE murders in Minneapolis organized by Indivisible I walked around asking if there were also plans for a huge rally against Trump’s war on Iran. 

Most had not heard any thing about a war against Iran. A few people including a former board member of the Resource Center for Nonviolence did repeat the false claim that over 33,000 peaceful protesters had just been killed by the Iranian government but he had not heard of any protests against the US attack on the country. 

I visited Indivisible’s social media and noticed that the No Kings 3 campaign rallies on March 28, 2026 have no mention  of Trump’s threat to start a regional war in West Asia. A war that could crash the global economy if Iran keeps its promise to close the Straits of Hormuz and would result in tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Last summer’s 12 Day War showed that Iran has the ability to devastate Israel. The world was fortunate that Iran stopped its attacks because if they hadn’t Israel would have been backed up against the wall forcing the genocidal country to implement their Samson Option launching nuclear weapons at Tehran.

The often repeated lies about over 33,000 peaceful protesters being killed by Iran was originated by the German optometrist Dr. Amir Parast, whose group “The Munich Circle” hosted the former Shah of Iran’s son Reza Pahlavi at their November 2025 conference. The London based media company “Iran International,” financed by Saudi Arabia and Israel pushed the story and western media was all too happy to spread the disinformation. 

In fact the foreign backed terrorists that went on a three or four day killing spree burning hospitals, banks and mosques in Iran were organized and armed by the US and Israel. Western NGOs smuggled in as many as 40,000 of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite routers, small arms, bombs and ammunition into the country. 

According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent his agency intentionally devaluated the Iranian currency to cause desperate merchants to organize protests calling for economic stabilization. Protests that armed Mossad, CIA and MI6 assets would exploit until Iran followed the Starlink communications and rounded up the terrorists snuffing out the regime change riots. 

At the January 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Scott Bessent labeled sanctions on Iran as key “economic statecraft”. He noted these measures contributed to Iran’s economic collapse and rising public unrest. 

Just like the US and MI6 organized 2014 Maidan Coup in Ukraine the foreign paid and coordinated “protesters” shot and killed both the police and other demonstrators in an attempt to recreate the 1953 US coup that placed the brutal Shah into power. 

Israel’s Mossad issued a message from its official Farsi language account on Twitter “urging Iranians to escalate” their regime change activities, pledging that the US and Israel would be supporting them on the ground.

“Go out together into the streets. The time has come,” Mossad instructed Iranians. “We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.”

“Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them,” former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Twitter post on New Year’s Eve.

After meeting with Netanyahu at the White House on February 11, 2026, Trump ordered the USS Gerald R Ford to deploy to the Arabian Sea from the Caribbean, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its associated carrier strike group. The USS George HW Bush is also on its way to join in the attack.

The last time the US had two of its 11 aircraft carriers in the region was last June when Trump ordered strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.

“As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL!” Trump’s post concluded. “They didn’t, and there was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Israel and the US are demanding Iran “stop enriching uranium, limit its missile program and stop supporting proxy groups in the Middle East,” as part of a new nuclear deal. Iran is not likely to let the United States and Israel install a puppet government without a fight.

The Times of Israel reported on February 14th,  “Asked Friday about potential regime change in Iran, US President Donald Trump said, ‘it seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,’ as he confirmed sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East ‘in case we don’t make a deal’ with the Islamic Republic.”

The Epstein Class seems to be repeating its June 2025 tactic of using negotiations that are designed to fail as cover for their next attack. A page taken out of the 2009 Brookings Institute’s “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran”.

One thing that suggests this war is about to start was the near universal exaggeration of pro-Shah protests on February 14, 2026. The BBC reported “Hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations around the world against the Iranian government on Saturday, following calls from the exiled son of the late shah for a “global day of action”.  These same media outlets ignored the massive pro-government “Revolution Day” rallies held in Iran on February 11, 2026, where nearly 20 million Iranians filled the streets of cities across the country to show support.

A cabal of satanic Zionist baby-raping cannibals are taking us to war. A war that could tank our economy as over 20% of the world’s oil is cut off if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by the conflict. A war where tens of thousands, maybe even millions could be killed in a desperate move to save the US Empire as it looses the power of its economic sanctions.   

Don’t let ICE terror stop us from uniting against this war. It is time for Palestinian activists, those protesting ICE, Americans horrified by the Epstein Files and those already crushed by the failed economy to start organizing anti-draft committees, bail funds, general strikes, occupations, blockades and mass protests. 

This also might be a good time to build communities of mutual aid and a sustainable culture of resistance.