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US voters oppose Israel’s war on Iran, but the US is involved already

US voters don’t want to join Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran, or for it to become Iraq 2.0. Donald Trump and other politicians, however, are essentially admitting the US is already involved.

Trump isn’t just ignoring US intelligence saying Iran was not developing nuclear weapons (which Israel already has). He isn’t just ripping up his previous ‘anti-war’ mask. He’s making it very clear that the attack on Iran is a joint effort between the US and its useful junior partner, Israel. Because he has said:

We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran

Warhawk senator Ted Cruz basically said the same in a carcrash inteview, saying:

we are carrying out military strikes today

Iran’s foreign ministry didn’t hesitate in pointing the finger at the US after Israel’s initial attack, highlighting that it held the apartheid state‘s “primary supporter” responsible. But it seems Washington isn’t even trying to hide its participation anymore.

Israeli intelligence service Mossad allegedly has significant influence in the US, and in the interview above Cruz himself admitted he was fine with Israel spying on people inside the US. Pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), meanwhile, exercises massive power in US politics. A simple look at how politicians display US and Israeli flags with equal pride represents an essential merging of the two settler-colonial states:

It may indeed be the case that Israel is doing most of the West’s “dirty work” in Iran (as German chancellor Friedrich Merz put it), but it simply couldn’t do that without the US.

They’re not even trying to fool people anymore

Over half of the 2024 Trump voters oppose the US joining Israel’s war on Iran, as do 60% of all voters. A poll in Britain shows the same opposition to backing Israel’s crimes.

That’s hardly surprising. Because there haven’t been meaningful efforts to fool people into backing Israeli crimes. And the facts are clear: Iran was showing good will in negotiations, ready to pledge never to develop nuclear weapons; US intelligence believed Iran was not currently developing such weapons; Israel blew up the negotiating table by openly engaging in international terrorism in Iran like it did in Lebanon last year, threatening Iranian civilians with collective punishment and demanding that they leave the capital en masse (which is almost certainly illegal).

Israel – along with its US backers – is the aggressor. And Iran is the victim. We don’t need to delve into the long history of Western interference in Iran to see that.

We must not allow our misanthropic rulers to push ahead with another devastating regime-change operation. Because they’re not just flamethrowing international law to cinders. They’re creating a world where only countries with their own nuclear weapons can escape this kind of aggression.

Featured image via the Canary

By Ed Sykes

This post was originally published on Canary.