Some people may say that isn’t this war happening to remove the brutal regime in Iran?
It’s undeniable that people in Iran are severely repressed and brutalised by their own government, especially women, especially LGBTQ+ people and minority communities.
We know that democracy protestors have been killed in their thousands, creating a deep human rights crisis.
Demanding a stop to this war does not mean that we should ever look away from that.
But if anything, this illegal war has strengthened Iran’s authoritarian theocratic regime because dropping bombs on them doesn’t liberate the Iranian people from their brutal government.
It doesn’t bring about democracy, it just kills innocent people.
Trump and Netanyahu particularly like to claim that their war will free women from the Iranian regime.
But their far right policies at home continue to prove that Trump and Netanyahu could not care less about women.
Has the world suddenly forgotten that this is the man who stripped away abortion rights in America?
Whose administration harms women and children and families in so many ways?
So this selective feminism to…to justify wars, illegal wars, that will not fool any of us.
We must continue standing up to Trump and Netanyahu.
They have committed war crimes.
They are eradicating entire neighbourhoods, displacing millions from their homes and destroying people’s futures.
And our government should not be allowing the US to use UK bases in its attacks and it must work together with the international community to stop this war.
Thank you everyone, solidarity!
Thank you very much Nadia
