An excellent, deeply disturbing, and spot on piece by my friend Faisal Khan. Deep bow of gratitude and respect to Faisal and the many courageous, wise, and fiercely caring truth-tellers in our midst. — Molly
An Unprovoked Attack on Iran
and a Region Set Ablaze
The recent terrorist attacks by United States and Israel on Iran demands unequivocal condemnation. Israel and United States bombed two girls schools in Iran, killing at least 85 Iranian girls. Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school. Now you know why neo war liberals, Schumer and Jeffries kept delaying a vote on the bipartisan resolution banning a war with Iran.
The attack on Iran was an absolutely horrific and violation of the international laws. It was not defensive. It was not necessary. It was a deliberate military strike against a sovereign nation that had not launched an imminent attack, and it has pushed an already volatile region closer to a catastrophic war.
This was presented to the world as “prevention.” But preventive war is not a legal doctrine; it is a political justification used to rationalize force after the decision to use it has already been made. Calling an act preventive does not make it lawful. It does not make it moral. It does not make the consequences disappear.
Israel has been engaged in a genocide in Gaza killing over 80,000 civilians including slaughtering over 20,000 children. Israel have for months escalated military operations across the region, inflicting devastating civilian casualties and destruction. With the backing of the United States, those actions have expanded rather than contained conflict. Instead of de-escalation, we are witnessing the normalization of permanent war, strikes justified by speculation, destruction explained away as strategy, and civilian suffering treated as background noise. With huge support of United States that has lost its moral integrity.
Meanwhile, Americans are told this is about security and that Iran is building nuclear weapons while the reality is that Israel is the only western proxy state that possesses nuclear weapons in the Middle East, even as many struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and basic necessities at home. Endless military entanglements abroad are pursued while ordinary people at home are asked to accept scarcity. The contrast is not just stark; it is infuriating.
Iran is not Iraq. It is not Libya. It is not Syria. It is a large, historically rooted nation with deep regional ties and significant capabilities. Any assumption that it can be coerced, bombed, or intimidated into submission reflects a profound misunderstanding of both history and reality. Escalation here does not end quickly. It multiplies, drawing in other states, hardening alliances, and making diplomacy vastly more difficult. The fore has spread all over the region now and the only country that is benefiting from this chaos and instability is Israel. But unfortunately United States have submitted its foreign policy and level of control to Israel. And now Israel has dragged US into a much wider and dangerous conflict.
For decades, hostile rhetoric has been directed at Iran regardless of circumstances, creating a self-fulfilling cycle: suspicion used to justify pressure, pressure provoking tension, and tension then cited as proof that confrontation was inevitable all along. That cycle has now produced exactly what should have been avoided, a widening conflict with no clear endpoint.
Iran, like any country, asserts its right to defend itself. Whether one agrees with its government or not is beside the point. International stability cannot survive if powerful states reserve to themselves the authority to strike first and explain later.
The role of leaders matters. Decisions taken under the administration of Trump and his blood thirsty war hawks, including the dismantling of diplomatic frameworks that once constrained escalation, helped set the stage for the crises now unfolding. Policies that abandoned negotiation in favor of pressure did not produce security; they produced the conditions for confrontation.
What we are witnessing is the expansion of a conflict that did not need to happen and whose consequences will not be contained to one country or one moment as we are witnessing now in real time. The region will bear the immediate cost, but the long-term damage to global stability, to international norms, and to the credibility of those who claim to enforce them will be far wider.
This attack by Israel and United States should be condemned plainly and without qualification. Not hedged. Not softened. Not reframed. Condemned.
The American people are now confronted with the reality that their country has carried out an act of war against a sovereign nation without congressional authorization and without a clear mandate from those who will bear its costs.
When a country like United States is willing to enable mass civilian suffering as we have seen in occupied Palestine, continue arms flows into a genocidal state, and obstruct humanitarian relief, it crosses a moral line that cannot be explained away by talking points or strategic language.
Iran is not a nation that will sit back quietly and absorb such actions, and the fires of conflict are already spreading across the Middle East with the risk of expanding even further. Allies who facilitate this escalation, whether by hosting bases or offering political cover, damage their own credibility as well as the stability they claim to defend.
Iran brings with it thousands of years of history, identity, and resilience; it is neither fragile nor easily subdued. The question Americans must now ask themselves is simple and urgent: Is this the future you want carried out in your name, and if not, what are you prepared to do to stop this disaster from deepening?
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