Hundreds in Minneapolis Protest the War on Iran
Minneapolis, MN — “From Iran to Palestine, stop the U.S. war machine,” chanted the crowd of hundreds that showed up to Chicago Ave. and Lake St. in south Minneapolis on Feb. 28 for an emergency anti-war protest against the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran. Just hours earlier, at least 165 people — mostly schoolgirls — were killed when bombs struck an Iranian elementary school.
“These shameful attacks happened right in the middle of U.S.-Iran negotiations,” said Sarah Martin, from Women Against Military Madness (WAMM), into a megaphone hooked to speakers sitting in the back of a truck in the lot of the building that formerly housed Roberts Shoes. “While the Iranian Foreign Minister and his Jordanian counterpart announced that the negotiations were going well, Trump ordered the military attack.”
As of March 4, over 1,000 Iranians have been killed by U.S. and Israeli air bombings, including the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with many of his family members and several high-ranking officials.
Speakers at the protest shared a main theme; they didn’t trust the government’s reasoning for the preemptive attack, while many noted how the aggressors are closely tied to the Epstein files, and this was a great distraction for them.
“I’m here to remind you guys that our enemy is not the people of Iran,” said Mnar Adley, founder and director of independent media organization MintPress News. “Our enemy are the parasitic billionaires that are running this country,” she said are “literally raping our children.”
“Trump and Netanyahu are not in the position to criticize, let alone punish, the Iranian state,” said anti-war activist Kim DeFranco. “They’re the most tyrannical, fascist war criminals, unethical politicians in our time. If there’s going to be a change in the structure of Iranian government, it must be decided by the majority of the Iran’s 85 million people.”
Meanwhile, Israel is also carrying out a deadly bombing campaign in Lebanon, while planning on colonizing south Lebanon while grabbing more of Gaza. At least 83,000 people have been forcibly displaced in Lebanon since the new round of Israeli airstrikes.
Around the same time as the protest in Minneapolis, a UR contributor was filming Iranian missiles over the skies of the Gaza Strip. A majority of the missiles were intercepted by the U.S. and Israel. An Israeli military vessel could be seen on fire off the coast of Gaza and interceptions and flares were seen over Ashkelon, a town just north of Gaza, which was claimed by Israel at the state’s creation in 1948. The clips near the end of the video show the border areas east of Gaza City that are newly controlled by Israeli forces.
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