CFA Condemns US Strikes on Iran

On the morning of February 28, 2026, President Trump in collaboration with Israel, commenced a massive military operation against Iran. This aggression, a surprise military attack in the midst of diplomatic negotiations with the Iranian government, was not an act of “defense,” but rather part of a long pattern of military intervention, coercive sanctions, and an attempted “regime change” carried out in the name of security while advancing geopolitical destruction.

The joint US-Israel military aggression struck Iran’s capital Tehran and several other cities. In Minab, US Tomahawk missiles targeted a primary girls school killing 175 children, teachers and staff in a “double tap” hit. US and Israeli fighter planes and missiles have targeted many residential areas, schools, health centers and universities, killing more than 3000 Iranians, many of them women and children. The war rapidly spread to the rest of the region, and it has been especially brutal in Lebanon, where even after the announcement of a fragile ceasefire, the occupation of the southern part of the country by Israeli forces has continued. Israeli officials have openly announced and implemented their plans for a series of war crimes including erasure of occupied Lebanese villages, targeted assassination, and indiscriminate bombing of the residents. The slow genocide in Gaza continues as well, with multiple new strikes killing defenseless civilians in the besieged Palestinian territory. President Trump also proudly announced his desire to erase Iranian civilization and send the country “to the stone age”, a clear-cut intent to commit genocide in violation of international law.

CFA, along with the United Nations, UNESCO, and other leading US and global unions strongly condemns US and Israeli aggression and war against Iran and the killing of Iranian people and the destruction of the country without any provocation. Moreover, we cannot condone the reckless actions of the Trump administration and the non-ending vile, racist, Islamophobic and Orientalist rhetoric against Iranian people and Iranian leadership. In addition to their criminality in their own right, if US and Israel’s actions, including the systematic targeted assassinations of scientists and political leaders and carpet bombing and murder of civilians, are not ceased, would threaten our world into further violence, chaos, and political and economic instability. 

Claiming that such an aggression is an attempt for the liberation of Iranian political opposition by an Israeli criminal , convicted of genocide by International Criminal Court, and an unstable and irresponsible president, who has violated all democratic norms and the American peoples’ constitutional rights, is a cynical framing of a bloody act of war promoted by the propaganda machine of corporate media. Iranian people, if opposed to their government, can organize and fight for their rights. They don’t need colonial “liberators” to invade their country and kill their children in the name of “freedom.”

Iran’s internal political divisions and struggles do not absolve the Trump administration of any accountability of its own violent actions, here or anywhere else in the world, whether in Iran, Venezuela, Lebanon or Cuba. Given the increasing numbers of police murders of Black citizens, the harassment and violence being enacted against immigrants and their supporters by ICE, Border Patrol and other government agencies, and states like Kansas demanding transgender people turn over their driver’s licenses, we cannot accept the hypocrisy and the pretenses of the current administration that claims to be concerned with the lives and wellbeing of people in Iran or here in the US.  

We call for an immediate end to the violence and war against Iran and other countries in the region and the world.