United for a Just Peace

Coalition to stop the forever wars. Stop the war on Iran. Stop the war on Cuba. Stop the war on Palestine. Stop the war on immigrants. Stop the war on the poor

[CODEPINK @codepink]

Since 2001, the United States has attacked at least 11 weddings in four countries.

They have killed at least 580 people.

Not one single U.S. official has been held to account for these massacres.

29 December 2001, Afghanistan
The U.S. bombed a wedding in Qalai Niazi village in eastern Afghanistan which killed 110 people. Wedding guests were described as having been “vaporized” by U.S. bombs.

18 May 2002, Afghanistan
U.S. planes bombed a wedding party in the village of Bul Khil in Khost, Afghanistan for several hours. They killed 11people.

1 July 2002, Afghanistan
The U.S. dropped seven 2,000lb bombs on a wedding in Uruzgan, Afghanistan which killed and injured more than 250 people. They bombed the wedding for two hours using a B-52 bomber and an AC-130 helicopter gunship. The UN found that that U.S. forces had removed vital evidence from the site of the bombing.

19 May 2004, Iraq
Ashad Rakat and Rutba Sabah were celebrating their marriage in Mukaradeeb, Iraq. The U.S. bombed and invaded the celebration, and killed 42 people, including 11 children. “We went out of the house and the American soldiers started to shoot us. They were shooting low on the ground and targeting us one by one...I fell into the mud and an American soldier came and kicked me. I pretended to be dead so he wouldn't kill me,” re-told one of the few survivors, sister-in-law of the groom.

6 July 2008, Afghanistan
A wedding party was travelling through Kamala in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. When the group stopped to rest, a U.S. military aircraft dropped three bombs on them. The first bomb hit a group of children and killed them all instantly. The second group bombed a group of women in the middle of the party. The third bomb killed the bride and two children as they tried to escape the area. The U.S. killed 47 people, including 35 children.

20 August 2008, Afghanistan
Haiji Qadar, an elderly man, was hosting more than 40 relatives at his home in Laghman, Afghanistan for a wedding party. The U.S. targeted and bombed the house. They killed 16 people and wounded many more.

3 November 2008, Afghanistan
The U.S. bombed a wedding ceremony in the village of Wech Baghtu which killed 40 people, mostly children.

6 June 2012, Afghanistan
NATO forces bombed a home in Sajawand village in Afghanistan, where people had gathered for a wedding party. 18 people were killed. “The house is completely destroyed. Everyone is shoveling to try to get the bodies out. Some of the bodies have no legs, no hands,” said Mohammed Wali, head of the local council of Sajawand village.

12 December 2013, Yemen
An 11-car wedding procession fitted with ribbons and bows was transporting a wedding party from a lunch to another village near Radda, Yemen. The U.S. bombed the cars and killed 12 members of the bride and groom’s families. Lockheed Martin Hellfire missiles were used in the attack.

23 September 2019, Afghanistan
NATO- and US-backed Afghan government forces bombed a home in Helmand, Afghanistan as people celebrated a wedding. At least 40 people were killed.

1 September 2026, Iran
The U.S. bombed a home near Sirik, Iran where people were hosting a wedding celebration. The bombing killed 5 people and wounded more than 60.

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

The list of complicity grows: Europeans admitting they are party to the war on Iran

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

While European states pretend to have been neutral or opposed the US and Israel's illegal war on Iran, NATO Chief Rutte tells a different story.

“5,000 aircraft took off from Europe to support Operation Epic Fury,” he says.

And then adds: "It would have been impossible to do Epic Fury without having Europe as a power-projecting platform."

Let's be clear: If any state had allowed Russia to use its territory and capabilities as a "power-projecting platform" to attack Ukraine, Europe would have considered that country a party to the war.

By Europe's own logic, and Rutte's admission, many European states are a party to Trump and Netanyahu's war.

[NIAC @NIACouncil]

NIAC Action has sued President Trump over his unauthorized war against Iran.

Learn more: https://t.co/t9bHGYZgq3

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

Bijan Mortazavi’s new song for the children of Minab

[Ali Saadat @A_liSaadat]

بیژن مرتضوی برای کودکان میناب خواند

بیژن مرتضوی بخشی از قطعه تازه‌ای را که به یاد کودکان میناب ساخته، منتشر کرد؛ اثری که ترانه آن را بابک صحرایی سروده و نسخه کامل آن پس از تکمیل منتشر خواهد شد.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Iran Says U.S. Can END WAR In 7 Days

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran’s 7-DAY plan begins the moment Washington accepts it.

“If they accept this plan tomorrow, the seven days will start from tomorrow.”

He says the U.S. can complete its required actions within 4-5 DAYS. Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz on DAY 6, followed by Iran-U.S. talks for a final deal on DAY 7.

“If there is seriousness on the U.S. side to come to a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, everything is now prepared.”

[NIAC @NIACouncil]

Iranian Americans are suing Trump over the war on Iran.

Watch as plaintiffs and constitutional lawyers lay out their federal challenge to the President’s authority to wage the war without congressional authorization.

https://t.co/o2eL5bf6LW

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

The victims of the most recent illegal war keep on rising

[barry with the NED @bonzerbarry]

The Pentagon quietly added 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines to the Iran war casualty count.

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

Abdul El-Sayed gives an excellent answer to a question on Iran

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

Abdul El-Sayed gives an excellent answer to a question on Iran

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

NOW: Hundreds in New York have blocked the streets outside Netanyahu's speech to the U.N.

This war criminal should be in the Hague, not the General Assembly.

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

NIAC is suing Trump over the illegal war in Iran

[NIAC @NIACouncil]

🚨 BREAKING — NIAC Action is suing Trump over unauthorized war with Iran. Today, attorneys Alan B. Morrison and Bruce Fein filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the National Iranian American Council Action (NIAC Action) challenging President Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran, arguing that the President’s war is unconstitutional, and seeking declaratory relief.

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the lawsuit asks the court to declare that the President’s continuing military campaign against Iran violates the Constitution’s Declare War Clause.

The case is brought by National Iranian American Council Action, on behalf of its members whose families have been injured, displaced, economically devastated and are in continuing mortal danger as a result of a war that was never lawfully authorized.

The complaint establishes that President Trump initiated the war on February 28, 2026, without a declaration of war or other congressional authorization and that the war has continued, including repeated heavy bombardments and a naval blockade, despite this lack of authorization and the passage by both chambers of Congress of an explicit directive to terminate unauthorized hostilities against Iran.

The Constitution assigns Congress the power to declare war, not the President. NIAC Action’s lawsuit asks the courts to defend this core Constitutional protection amid the direct assault on it posed by the unconstitutional Iran war.

The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that the President is unconstitutionally waging an indefinite war against Iran.

Read the full complaint here: https://t.co/Y6PY9uz20A

[Farnoush Amiri @FarnoushAmiri]

An ad on the streets of New York near the UN that is aimed at Iranian delegation who the US has banned from shopping while here.

“Paid for by the State of Israel”

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: We must continue to ensure that the United States of America can strike anywhere on the globe at the time & place of our choosing and sustain that force.

Us: We will resist your empire & squandering & pollution of our resources in every step

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

If this is not an empire, nothing is.

The US military literally says it must be able to attack anyone, anywhere on Earth, at any time.

It's a globe-spanning imperial war machine.

Imagine how the US would feel if China vowed to develop the capacity to "strike anywhere on the globe, at the time and place of our choosing".

(Fortunately, China has no interest in this, as it has not fought a war since 1979 and has a non-interventionist foreign policy.)

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

Three years ago, far right Iranian diaspora activists inflated by Israeli bot armies launched a smear campaign against NIAC, the only grassroots Iranian-American org opposing war and sanctions

That has now become the model used to target every progressive Iranian-American

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

"You're a criminal, Ms. von der Leyen. You should be in The Hague, not here."

A journalist confronts European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over her alleged complicity in the Gaza crisis.

[United for a Just Peace @Unite4JustPeace]

Rep Khanna introduces the Illegal War Refund Act, require the federal government to calculate the war’s economic impact on American taxpayers and cut the Department of Defense budget by that amount, returning the money directly to American tax filers and their dependents.

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

Trump’s illegal war in Iran has cost Americans in food and gas prices an estimated $230 billion.

Today, I introduced the Illegal War Refund Act to put that money back in the pockets of Americans.

The bill would pull the money from the DOD and write checks for $1700 directly to American taxpayers.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

Trump's new sanctions on Iran will deprive ordinary Iranians of medicine

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

ABD Eski Dışişleri Bakanı Hillary Clinton, Columbia Üniversitesi'nde protesto edildi:

▪️"Sen bir savaş suçlususun. Libya, Irak, Suriye, Yemen, Filistin ve Amerika halkları seni asla affetmeyecek."

[NIAC @NIACouncil]

When you sanction an entire economy, you are sanctioning the people who have to live in it.

Civilians should never be the target of economic warfare!

[Antony Loewenstein @antloewenstein]

Assal Rad reminds us of that moment, one year after the invasion of Iraq, when George W. Bush made a joke about the missing weapons of mass destruction. The room laughed. Check out The Antony Loewenstein Podcast and support independent journalism by visiting the links in bio. Produced by @Lemzakharia and @Lenahelou