CND condemns Israel’s brutal escalation in Lebanon killing hundreds of civilians. The targeting of residential areas and infrastructure are war crimes. This is a breach of the ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, mediated by Pakistan, which confirms an ‘immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon’.
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Trump and Netanyahu’s war has been a brutal and illegal onslaught on the people of Iran and Lebanon. It has created a humanitarian disaster and caused the destruction of infrastructure, environmental damage, and economic crisis. 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, sent a chill around the world. We need to expose the nuclear hypocrisy. 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. Britain, as a primary sponsor of the relevant UN resolution, should be promoting the establishment of a Nuclear Weapons-Free Middle East Treaty.
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.
UK Prime Minister 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, including allowing the stationing of US nuclear weapons at the Lakenheath base in Suffolk.
Now more than ever, we need political leaders that will reassert international law, diplomacy and dialogue. We have already marched in our tens of thousands to oppose the war on Iran, help us keep up the pressure to make sure the government supports a lasting and sustainable ceasefire.
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