With the Attack on Iran, the Black Alliance for Peace Calls on the Remaining Teams in the FIFA World Cup to Withdraw from the Tournament

With the Attack on Iran, the Black Alliance for Peace Calls on the Remaining Teams in the FIFA World Cup to Withdraw from the Tournament 

The United States’ cynical decision to resume active warfare against Iran while simultaneously draping itself under the guise of a gracious global host for the FIFA World Cup exposes a foreign policy defined by rank impunity and lawlessness that must be rejected by the international community.

As the Trump administration escalates strikes against Iran, the Board of Peace actively abets the region’s immolation. As the U.S./Israel coalition/alliance continues to systematically destroy Palestine through genocide and ethnic cleansing, the Trump administration supports the refusal of Israel to withdrawal from Lebanon, where they apply the same genocidal campaign as they have in Gaza. The ongoing crimes against humanity, war crimes, support for genocide and resumption of the attack on Iran means that the World Cup must not be allowed to proceed as business as usual.  

The U.S. presenting itself as the world’s welcoming host is morally obscene.

The World Cup games should not be allowed to go on as long as the U.S. is attacking Iran, Lebanon is being destroyed, and Palestine continues to be brutally assaulted from the West Bank to Gaza. While the affronts on the human dignity of football teams and players from Iran and other nations during this World Cup show the arrogance and colonial mindset of the U.S., we must focus our attention on the primary issue of U.S. war, imperialist domination, and genocide.

We must Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S.!

Image: A plume of smoke rises Monday following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Tyre in southern Lebanon.Kawnat Haju / AFP via Getty Images

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S.-Iraeli War on Iran

The Black Alliance For Peace condemns, in the strongest terms, the recent U.S.-Israeli bombing of Tehran and other cities in Iran, which included the bombing of an all-girls school in Minab, which reportedly killed at least 50 students. This military attack is a flagrant violation of the most fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter. As articulated by Iran's Foreign Ministry and multiple international observers, it constitutes a clear act of aggression against a sovereign member state, undermining international peace and security. Such actions underscore the rogue statism of the U.S. and Israel as existential threats. Western powers, particularly the U.S., have embraced "international lawlessness" to support Israeli expansionism. In just the last two months, this lawlessness has enabled the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, and the bombing, invasion, and ongoing intervention in Venezuela; the heightened strangulation and attacks on Cuba; and now bombing and possible further attacks against Iran.

This criminal escalation serves the interests of no one but the imperialist-zionist warmongers. It flies in the face of domestic and global public opinion, which largely rejects such violence. The international community has condemned the strikes as an unprovoked act of armed aggression. When faced with such international gangsterism, we must ask: whose interests are being upheld? Certainly not those of the Iranian schoolchildren, workers, or the millions worldwide who desire peace. It is the capitalist-imperialist ruling class that rules through ever-accelerating militarism and the most extremist elements in Tel Aviv and Washington that benefit from this carnage.

Such U.S. and Israeli murderous lawlessness forces us to take coordinated action to impose consequences on these states. The international community of nations must not allow the normalization of U.S. led global fascism. This is why BAP has called for organizations and people of conscience to demand that FIFA move the World Cup out of the U.S., demand that both FIFA and the IOC ban the U.S. and Israel from hosting or participating in International Sporting Events, and to join coordinated resistance to Boycott the World Cup.  U.S. Zionist-imperialist impunity must end now! 

More immediately, we call on all people of conscience to stand with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian people against this bombing and intervention, to mobilize where they are against the widening scope of U.S. wars, and to defend the right of peoples and nations to resist imperialist violence.

Resources and mobilization information here: 

tinyurl.com/stopuswar

linktr.ee/stopuswar

Stop U.S. War on Iran! 

Oppose U.S.-led International Gangsterism!