We welcome the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US.
Trump and Netanyahu’s war has been a brutal and illegal onslaught on the people of Iran and Lebanon. It has created humanitarian disaster, destruction of infrastructure, environmental damage and economic crisis. None of this will be easily overcome, and it is the people of the world who will suffer. The western sanctions on Iran must be lifted, and reparations paid for the terrible damage done to Iran.
Trump’s threat to destroy a civilisation, with its implied threat of nuclear war, has sent a chill around the world.
The US is the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons in war. To this day, the survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki experience the toxic nightmare of nuclear war. Trump’s utter nuclear hypocrisy cannot be ignored. Whilst Iran negotiated in good faith over its nuclear programme, the nuclear armed states of Israel and the US sabotaged these diplomatic efforts. It is US and Israel that are the nuclear threats.
We regard Trump as a dangerous war criminal and have no illusions that this ceasefire will hold. We are committed to opposing any further attacks, and those of Netanyahu’s Israel on Lebanon and on the Palestinian people.
Keir Starmer has been complicit in this illegal war, and we demand he stops allowing US planes to use British bases. The so called ‘special relationship’ is finished, and the British government must break with Trump and his warmongering policies.