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US Muslim groups call on Trump to reject Israel’s ‘unprovoked war on Iran’
The US Council of Muslim Organizations, the largest coalition of Muslim groups in the country, has warned that Israel’s “illegal, unnecessary and unprovoked war on Iran … threatens to entangle the United States in more death and destruction”.
In a statement, the group called on Trump to reject Israel’s push for the US to get more involved in the conflict, and to demand that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately halt his country’s attacks.
“Let’s be clear. What we are seeing today echoes the lies that led to the Iraq war,” the organisations said, referring to the false claim in the lead-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 that the country had “weapons of mass destruction”, or WMDs.
“Just as Iraq did not have WMDs, Iran does not have nuclear weapons, was not making nuclear weapons, and was at the negotiating table ready to commit to limiting its uranium enrichment to the amount that can only be used for civilian purposes,” the statement reads.
The groups also tied the Israel-Iran escalation to the “US’s blind support” for Israel’s abuses against Palestinians. “The Israeli government is committed to self-destructive madness – and the American government must stop blindly following this foreign nation into the abyss,” they said.
New statement released by the US Council of Muslim Organizations, the largest coalition of American Muslim groups, on Israel's U.S.-backed war on Iran:
"The Israeli government's Illegal, unnecessary and unprovoked war on Iran is just the latest example of its relentless violence…
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) June 15, 2025
Israel facing ‘no effective pressure’ to stand down
Former US nuclear negotiator Alan Eyre says Israel and Iran are “stuck in a dangerous, escalatory spiral of hostilities”.
“All in all, it seems that Israel had a plan, it’s following the plan, there’s really not effective international pressure on Israel to stop, and so it seems – at least for the time being – that Israel will continue to go after targets it deems it needs to take care of inside Iran,” Eyre told Al Jazeera.
While Trump has said he thinks Israel’s attacks on Iran will encourage Iranian negotiators to agree to a nuclear deal, Eye explained that “anyone with even a cursory knowledge of contemporary Iran realises that that’s very unlikely”.
“If the US thinking is that allowing Israel to go forward with these attacks will put more pressure on Iran and get a better deal for the United States, I think that’s quite unlikely.”
With Israel facing no “effective pressure” both domestically and internationally to halt its attacks, Eyre added that the key question will be what the Israeli government’s goals are.
“Is Israel just seeking to incapacitate Iran’s nuclear program, or is it in fact hoping to push Iran towards some type of regime change by increasing the pressure on the Iranian population?”
It seems Netanyahu is just trying to start a bigger war to stay in power and to distract from the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in and annexation of the Westbank.
Iran is talked up as the existential threat to Israel, always has been. A moderate Iran is indeed an existential threat as the Islam 'scare' is the reason used to keep US troops in the ME and support for Israel.
The new Iranian PM, Masoud Pezeshkian elected in 2024, was more interested in talks rather than war as evidenced by Iran not retaliating to prior pot shots and assassinations by Israel since he took office. So Netanyahu felt he had to make sure Iran got back on track to being perceived as the actual threat to Israel and made sure Iran could not ignore their attacks any longer by starting a mass scale bombing campaign.
And of course "WMD in Iraq", now (imminent) Nuclear weapons in Iran is an easy sell to the American public. Trump's 90 day negotiations were just a setup for Israel to start bombing, which Netanyahu had already planned for April.
There was no reason to abandon negotiations which were planned to continue today. Obviously now Iran can't go back to the negotiating table while under fire from Israel and the US. Even though the US isn't actively participating in the bombing, Israel is using US made weapons while hiding behind US' defences including the recently installed THAAD system in Israel and American assets actively helping shooting retaliatory missiles down.
It's very similar to how Settlers behave when they attack. Attack and quickly hide behind the IDF while blaming Palestinians for trying to defend themselves.
How long will the world still continue to buy this bullshit, driven by the mainstream media's one sided reporting.
