LIZ PEEK: War critics on wrong side of history as Iran celebrates Trump’s strike shocks US left

Leftists in the United States are very confused. While Iranians around the world celebrate the death of butcher Ayatollah Khamenei, who ruled their country with an iron fist, liberals in the United States condemn President Donald TrumpThe war of liberation of the Persian nation.

Opposition to the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran has been widespread and rapid, fueled in part by Trump derangement syndrome — if Trump was behind the attack, they reliably oppose it — and also tinged with anti-Semitism.

The smoke had not yet cleared from the bombings in Iran before Democrats began voicing their objections, with Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, for example, calling the bombings “dangerously illegal and wrong on a staggering scale,” and condemning the president as a “potential dictator.” Murphy has also called Israel’s policy in Gaza and the West Bank “immoral,” and recently announced that he would not support additional military aid to Israel.

Anti-Israel Democrats in the House of Representatives were particularly strident, with the “Squad” member. Rashida Tlaib From the Michigan post, “It is clear that Israel’s genocidal government does not care about children and human lives, including our loved ones in the military.” She also posted that “the government of Israel is addicted to bombing hospitals, schools, and refugee camps, all of which are war crimes.”

Democrats have been turning away from their traditional support for Israel for some time, especially since the far-left took control of their party. Axios reported in December that the Democratic National Committee’s “autopsy” of the vice president’s cause was still classified Kamala Harris Defeating Trump in the 2024 Election concluded that the former vice president “lost significant support due to the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza…”

Iran has brought nothing but bloodshed and destruction to Israel, the United States, and the Middle East for decades.

That is to say, sifting through the ashes of the 2024 election for clues as to why the admittedly inconspicuous candidate couldn’t think of anything she would do differently than the deeply unpopular candidate. Joe Biden It caught fire, Democratic officials decided…it was Israel’s fault! Democrats are quick learners, and their support for the Jewish state is rapidly waning.

It’s not just Democrats who are piling on. Criticism also came from far-right conspiracy theorists.

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We also heard criticism from the utterly worthless and anti-Israel United Nations, with Secretary-General António Guterres condemning the US-Israeli air strikes on Iran and demanding immediate negotiations to “pull the region and our world back from the brink.”

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges calm after the exchange of military strikes between Israel and Iran on June 13, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Guterres oversaw the UN “with a blatant anti-Israel bias, supporting biased and unilateral efforts to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state,” the pro-Jewish Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said. It is a bias that the Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) can document, and which has “surprisingly escalated since the Hamas attack on October 7.”

Weak European leaders stood on the sidelines, initially distancing themselves from the US-Israeli initiative. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer initially refused to grant the United States permission to use its air bases, forcing American planes to make a more than 20-hour flight to carry out their mission. Then he relented and was ridiculed from all sides.

The United States allows it to use British bases for limited strikes on Iranian missile capabilities

Naturally, the stupid students got involved too, as Columbia University’s most notorious anti-Israel group, responsible for the “camp” set up last year to protest the Gaza conflict, posted “Death to America” ​​in Persian afterwards. the It killed the United States and Israel Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei. This prompted Senator Tex Cruz, Republican of Texas, to demand that foreign students who send such anti-American messages be deported “immediately.” He’s right.

One of the student protesters said in an interview that the United States “should ally with the Iranian regime instead of Israel because Iran” is not fascist.

Zahran MamdaniNew York’s new Muslim mayor strongly condemned President Trump’s war with Iran, saying: “Today’s military strikes on Iran – carried out by the United States and Israel – represent a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.” He also said, “In addition, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: You are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders.” “You will be safe here,” the mayor assured them.

Mamdani misread the room, assuming that Iranians living in the United States would react similarly to the attack on the mullahs. Instead, jubilant Iranians gathered Times Square To celebrate the end of one of the most hated and brutal regimes in history.

The Iranian-American Democrat is “incredibly disappointed” by the party’s response to the US-Israeli strikes

They seemed to feel quite safe, as they were.

There are certainly good reasons to fear a Military confrontation with Iran. The country possesses a huge arsenal of ballistic missiles, has a well-trained and now vengeful army, and can disrupt the world’s oil supply by planting mines in the Strait of Hormuz. It is also a large country with a population of 90 million people. Iranian citizens may hate the mullahs, but they do not have the weapons with which to overthrow the theocracy.

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But Iran has brought nothing but bloodshed and destruction to Israel, the United States, and the Middle East for decades. There will be no peace or progress in the region while Iran continues to fund its terrorist proxies and persistently seeks to produce long-range missiles and a nuclear bomb.

Democrats who mourn the cancellation of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and protest that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was preventing the regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon surely know better. The deal was seriously flawed, could not be verified, and from day one the mullahs prevented UN inspectors from carrying out the agreed-upon ratification of the agreement.

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President Trump has ended the mullahs’ reign of terror and united the region in a way no one could have imagined.

This is a valid endeavour. Let us hope, on the other hand, that a free Iran will become a reliable ally.

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