Just Peace Advocates strongly condemns the imminent war on Iran planned by the United States of America. Just Peace Advocates stated that such an action is both illegal and unjust, representing a serious threat to peace and stability in the region.

The Threat of War

The United States is currently threatening to launch a devastating war on Iran in the near future. Just Peace Advocates expresses deep concern over these developments and calls for an immediate halt to any military escalation.

In the last month, the United States and Israel have made unjust demands on Iran which, if not met, a US war on Iran will ensue.

The three demands, zero uranium enrichment, curbing Iranian missile defense capacities to three hundred kilometers and ending support for the axis of resistance to the Zionist entity in western Asia. These demands are echoed by the Zionist entity, Israel.

The United States and Israel are nuclear powers and have no right to impose nuclear limits on the sovereign nation of Iran. It is common knowledge that Iran does not want nuclear arms and is ready to limit uranium enrichment with international supervision. These issues should be resolved by diplomatic means: war and the threat of war must be abandoned by the US President, Donald Trump.

Iranian missile defences are capable of hitting Israel and all American military bases in western Asia. Iran as a sovereign nation has the unalienable right to defend itself under article 51 of the United Nations Charter by any means necessary, particularly in the light of Israeli and American threats to attack and impose an illegal regime change.

It is illegal and unreasonable for the United States and Israel to require Iran to stop all support granted to the Resistance Axis in Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, Syria, and Iraq. This support, as it exists, results from its agreements with the Resistance movements against the illegitimate Zionist entity. Opposition to Zionist colonialism, and all settler colonialism, should be commended.

Just Peace Advocates calls for deescalation, negotiations which respect international law, including the sovereign right of Iran to defend itself with all its advanced military assets and the right to work in tandem with all military and political opponents to the illegitimate Zionist occupation of Palestine.

A war on Iran would violate its sovereignty and the principals of Nuremberg established by the International Military Tribunal which established the legal precedent that launching a war of aggression is the “supreme international crime”. Defined as “crimes against peace,” this included planning, preparing, or initiating wars in violation of international treaties and sovereign nations. 

The United States must abandon it role as an aggressor and negotiate with Iran respecting its sovereignty recognized by International Law.