„Ich nehme zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt keine abschließende völkerrechtliche Beurteilung vor“, sagt Wadephul. Man müsse aber sehen, dass das iranische Regime auch Russland mit Drohnen versorge, die dann im Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine eingesetzt würden.
Zudem unterstütze das Regime in Teheran Terrororganisationen wie die Hisbollah und die Hamas. Eine Lösung könne nur darin bestehe, dass die iranische Führung auf den Besitz von Nuklearwaffen verzichte.
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries backed legislation last year aimed at forestalling US military intervention in Iran.
The top Democrats’ responses to Saturday’s US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which Trump said would continue “uninterrupted” even after the killing of the nation’s supreme leader, contrasted sharply with statements of rank-and-file congressional Democrats—and even some members of leadership—who condemned the president for shredding the Constitution and driving the US into another deadly war that the American public opposes.
In 2003, I spoke at hundreds of meetings and protests against the government’s plans to go to war in Iraq.
I was proud to have spoken at this demonstration in Hyde Park on 15 February 2003 – the largest ever in British history.
The British people showed the war was “not in our name”.
When: March 2, 2026 6:00 pm
“The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked, and unjustifiable,” said Jeremy Corbyn, an independent member of the British Parliament and former leader of the UK Labour Party. “Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, Israel and the United States chose war.”
“This is the behavior of rogue states—and they have jeopardized the safety of humankind around the world with this catastrophic act of aggression,” Corbyn added. “Our government must condemn this flagrant breach of international law, and urgently pursue a foreign policy based on justice, sovereignty, and peace.”
Progressive International co-founder Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, echoed Corbyn’s criticism of the US and Israel as “rogue states.”
Healey noted that around 300 UK armed forces personnel were “within several hundred yards” of drones and missiles that Iran fired at a US military base in Bahrain, while two ballistic missiles were “fired in the direction of Cyprus” on Saturday.
“It demonstrates how our bases, our personnel, military and civilians at the moment are at risk with a regime that is increasingly indiscriminate, widespread and uncontrolled in the attacks it’s mounting,” he said.
Giving the first UK Government response to Mr Khamenei’s death, Healey told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “I think few people will mourn the Ayatollah’s death, not least the family and friends of those thousands of young protesters murdered on the streets of Iranian cities.
“Iran and the regime he’s led for so long, it’s a source of evil, murdering its own citizens and sponsoring and exporting terror, including to countries like Britain.”
That statement came four hours after one was first posted on Facebook around 4 pm by the ministry, and then retracted. That post was left up for at least an hour.
In a WhatsApp response to Guardian Media, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sean Sobers said the release was retracted because the Government was “still assessing the situation”, adding that another statement would be issued.
The second statement saw the removal of the term “allies” and also expressed sympathy for the loss of life.
Let’s be very clear about this: the United States is in this war because Trump was determined to drag the country into it no matter what. Mere hours before Trump launched it, the foreign minister of Oman, which was mediating the last-ditch talks on a nuclear deal that took place yesterday, revealed the enormous concessions the Iranians had made in negotiations: not just agreeing to not stockpile uranium, making it impossible to build a bomb, but diluting the uranium it currently holds and agreeing to full verification by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. These concessions would have gone well beyond what Barack Obama had extracted in his Iran deal, and they came paired with an explicit vow that Iran would never have a nuclear weapon — something that its leaders have constantly said over the decades, and repeatedly so over the past week.
Didn’t matter.
The greatest threat to global peace is not Iran. It is the two nations who have just bombed it. With military strikes launched by the United States and Israel, the world has entered yet another dangerous escalation that risks a broader conflagration in the Middle East and beyond. These attacks are not acts of self-defence; they are a blatant demonstration of imperial muscle flexed with catastrophic disregard for human life.
Europe’s complicity with US and Israeli brutality must be accounted for. EU governments that applaud these attacks, supply arms, or provide political cover are deeply implicated in the violence. Empty condemnations and lukewarm statements of concern are not enough. Silence by European leaders amounts to consent, and consent enables further bloodshed.
Now is the time to rise up for peace and justice.
Malaysia stands in solidarity with all Muslims and communities in the Middle East who have been affected by the tensions caused by the actions of the United States (US) and Israel in launching attacks on Iran on Saturday.
In a Facebook post today, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia prays for the well-being of Muslims and all communities affected in the Middle East.
The base, which hosts US forces, was struck twice beginning in the early hours of the morning. The first attack occurred shortly after 4 a.m., followed by a second around 8:30 a.m. The extent of the damage remains unclear.
Authorities have yet to comment on the incident.
Türkiye on Saturday refuted social media claims alleging illegal crossings from the Iranian border amid Israeli, U.S. attacks on Iran.
„The images are old footage of unknown time and place; it has been determined that they were deliberately circulated again following recent regional developments,“ Türkiye‘s Center for Combating Disinformation said on Turkish social media platform NSosyal.
(February 24, 2026)
Türkiye has updated its contingency plans for a possible US-led military campaign against Iran, with options that include entering Iranian territory to prevent a mass refugee influx, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The preparations come as NATO has redirected its aerial surveillance operations based in Türkiye away from Russia and toward Iran.
(January 27, 2026)
Turkey is drawing up plans to keep people from crossing its border from Iran if the government in Tehran collapses after possible US military action, the Middle East Eye news website reported on Tuesday.
The report said senior officials from the Turkish Foreign Ministry briefed lawmakers in a closed-door meeting at parliament on Thursday about potential scenarios involving Iran. The outlet cited two participants in the briefing.
From Srinagar streets to mosques in Delhi, Lucknow, India’s Shia community and political leaders condemn Khamenei‘s killing, warning of a world without international law
Violence erupted in Pakistan’s picturesque region Skardu as enraged demonstrators reportedly torched multiple government and international buildings while protesting the alleged assassination of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei.
Massive flames engulfed the regional UN office, damaging parts of the complex. Reports claim Army Public School, the office of the Superintendent of Police, a high-tech software park, and the headquarters of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme were all attacked and set ablaze in a wave of destruction.
Amid the outrage over the killing of Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hundreds of protestors in Pakistan stormed the US Consulate in Karachi on Sunday. As per a report by AP, the protest came hours after Iran confirmed the death of Ayatollah Khamenei in the joint strikes conducted by the US and Israel
The Communist Party of Israel & The Democratic Front for Peace & Equality (Aljabha/Hadash) condemn the war of aggression launched by Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning, February 28, against Iran, and affirm that this attack is a joint Israeli-American aggression, warning that it may ignite a large-scale regional or global war.
CPI and Aljabha/Hadash reaffirm that Israel is not only an instrument of global American imperialism, but also a partner in it and in its efforts to impose American imperialist hegemony over the world and its natural and economic resources, and to subject all governments to US political and economic interests. This includes all parts of the world – especially the Middle East and Latin America.
CPI & Aljabha/Hadash also point to the danger of the near-consensus among the government and the main Israeli opposition parties regarding the war of agression against Iran, and warn against exploiting the preoccupation of public opinion with this attack to intensify massacres and crimes of ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and to expand the fascist onslaught and the rise of racism in Israel.
We also call on all true peace movements within Israeli society to raise their voices against Israeli-US aggression, and to demand the removal of US forces and all nuclear weapons from the Middle East.
President Donald Trump launched Saturday’s wide-ranging attack on Iran after a weeks-long lobbying effort by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East — Israel and Saudi Arabia — according to four people familiar with the matter, as Israeli and U.S. forces teamed to topple Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei after nearly four decades in power.
Iranian state media announced the death of Iran‘s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after contradictory reports of the killing.
The Tasnim and Fars news agencies are confirming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 1. Four members of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s family were reportedly killed in airstrikes carried out by Israel and the United States, Trend reports, citing Iranian media.
Among the deceased are Khamenei’s daughter, his son-in-law, his grandson, and one of his daughters-in-law.
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The Iranian Mehr news agency is reporting two explosions in the capital.
We’ll bring you more soon.
(February 26, 2026)
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on five senior Nicaraguan officials, accusing them of helping President Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-President, Rosario Murillo, to entrench an increasingly authoritarian system through financial controls, labor policies, telecommunications surveillance and military intelligence operations.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said the designations target officials who lead key agencies enabling what it described as the Murillo-Ortega regime’s “campaign of repression and tyranny.”
President Donald Trump said there could be a „friendly takeover of Cuba,“ though did not go into specifics, while taking questions from reporters while departing the White House on Friday.
The comment came after being asked about a deadly confrontation off the coast of Cuba on Wednesday, in which Cuban officials said people on a U.S.-registered speedboat fired upon Cuban border troops in an alleged attempt to „carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.“
Thousands and thousands of Americans from my generation have been killed and injured in never ending pointless foreign wars and we said no more. But we are freeing the Iranian people.
Please.
There are 93 million people in Iran, let them liberate themselves. But Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons.
Yeah sure.
We have been spoon fed that line for decades and Trump told us all that his bombing this past summer completely wiped it all out.
It’s always a lie and it’s always America Last. But it feels like the worst betrayal this time because it comes from the very man and the admin who we all believed was different and said no more.
We thought the victory won in 2024 would be finally time to put America First.
And we thought that meant the common American man and woman and their children.
Not the elites.
America has suffered and they don’t even care.
Hundreds of thousands of American small business owners lost their hard earned businesses during tyrannical covid lockdowns, that by the way, started under Trump with 15 days to slow the spread and continued under Biden and Democrats. There is no difference between them.
Vaccine injuries, deaths, delays and loss in our tax payer funded education, record high suicides, record high Big Pharma profits and ZERO accountability for anyone from the MAGA America First administration as they run off to start wars and the board of peace at the same time.
Create the crisis and the solution simultaneously and then build condos to profit. MAGA!
For years we demanded to release the Epstein files, demanding transparency and justice for thousands of victims, women and children, by the richest most powerful men in the world and we had to fight Trump himself to do it, even after we all campaigned on it. And not a single person has been arrested and likely won’t be, no accountability, no justice.
Instead, we get a war with Iran on behalf of Israel that will succeed in regime in Iran.
Another foreign war for foreign people for foreign regime change.
For what?
Does it lower our inflation that our government caused? Caused by BOTH Democrats AND Republicans with their decades of corrupt government spending that has enslaved us all in nearly $40 Trillion in debt and reduced the value of our dollar to nothing. No, war with Iran does not lower inflation and make cost of living affordable.
Does war with Iran fix our healthcare system and make health insurance affordable for Americans??
No war with Iran does not do that and the MAGA admin and Republicans aren’t even working on it in any serious way at all.
Does war with Iran stop AI from replacing your job? Nope.
Does war with Iran help you to be able to afford to buy a home? No, but you’ll see TikTok videos of nice penthouses when Gaza is rebuilt.
Does war with Iran help the mental health crisis in America or help the drug addiction pandemic in America? Nope.
Does war with Iran do anything to help American families stay together and survive? No, not at all.
But within hours of war with Iran it was reported approximately 40 innocent girls, school children, in Iran were killed by bombs from Israel.
And they don’t care, they killed thousands of innocent children in Gaza, and apparently our Pro-Peace administration doesn’t care either.
And, since they won’t solve America’s problems clearly they don’t care about our kids either.
Now, America is going to be force fed and gas lighted all the “noble” reasons the American “Peace” President and Pro-Peace administration had to go to war once again this year, after being in power for only a year.
Head-spinning, but maga.