NEW YORK, March 1 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied in Times Square and then marched along streets in New York City in protest of US-Israel coordinated airstrikes against Iran on Saturday, reported Xinhua.
Participants condemned the latest strikes on Iran and called for money to be spent on education, housing and other domestic priorities.
People held banners reading "Stop the War on Iran," "No Regime Change Wars," "Trump Must Go Now" and others.
Protesters also chanted "From the belly of the beast, hands off the Middle East," "Up up with liberation, down down with occupation" and other slogans.
"We cannot forget that it is the United States that has over 5,000 nuclear warheads ready to be launched. It is the United States that is pointing those nuclear warheads at the towns and cities of everyday people like you and me all across the world," said Layan Fuleihan, education director at The People's Forum, a socialist organisation and movement incubator based in New York City.
"Iran poses no threat to the United States. We will not fall for the lies that were used to deceive us 20 years ago," said Fuleihan in a speech at the rally.
There is absolutely no reason and no working person, no family here in the United States that says they wake up every day and they are afraid of Iran, said Fuleihan. "This is not the reality of this country."
"The attack on Iran by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution," said a flyer handed out at the rally attributed to David North, chair of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States.
US President Donald Trump has set the US and the entire world on a disastrous course and the war will not solve the internal crisis of American society nor will it reverse the protracted deterioration in the global position of US capitalism, said North.
The United States government is the most aggressive imperialist power in history, and this is just another imperialist war, said Marilyn Vogt-Downey, a retired teacher of economics and foreign policy in New York City.
More protests against the war on Iran are planned in New York City alone in the coming days, according to organisers present at the rally.
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