Thousands Across US Rally Against Ongoing US-Israeli Aggression on Iran

New York, MINA – Demonstrators marched in more than 50 cities across the United States over the weekend to protest the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, as the conflict entered its second week with continued strikes and retaliatory attacks, Tasnim news agency reported Monday.

Protesters from coast to coast called for an immediate end to the operations, which began on February 28 with joint US and Israeli strikes targeting Iranian military sites, nuclear facilities, leadership, as well as civilian infrastructure.

In New York City’s Manhattan, hundreds gathered at Union Square on Saturday afternoon. They chanted slogans including “Biggest Threat in the World Today: Donald Trump and the USA” and “Trump Says More War, We Say No More.”

Demonstrators carried signs reading “Hands off Iran,” “No New US War in the Middle East,” and “Money for People’s Needs, Not War with Iran.”

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“This is an unjust war. This is another regime-change war, which usually comes from obviously corrupt reasons like land expansion, basically colonizing other countries, taking advantage of them,” Maya, one of the demonstrators in the square, told Xinhua.

“From what I saw, we’re spending a billion US dollars a day on this war while we’re in an affordability crisis. So obviously that money should be used for US citizens. It can be used for health care, for better child care, public transit, anything except for this war,” she added.

“I think that this war is terrible,” said Maggie Morales, a New Yorker. “We know that this is something that only benefits him (President Donald Trump) personally. It does not benefit our country. It does not benefit our people. Unfortunately, it puts us more in danger.”

The United States and Israel initiated large-scale strikes against Iran on February 28, prompting Iranian missile and drone responses targeting Israel and US assets in the Middle East. The escalation has intensified regional tensions and produced broader international repercussions.[]

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Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)