More than 50 demonstrators descended on San Antonio City Hall on Wednesday evening to protest against the U.S. war in Iran, Israel’s bombing of Lebanon and what they called President Donald Trump’s “genocidal” comments.
“Anybody who calls for the eradication of a culture, that’s a crime against humanity,” Vietnam War veteran Tom Wetzler told the Current.
Wetzler is referring to an online statement Trump posted Tuesday in which he threatened that “a whole civilization will die” if Iran didn’t accept a U.S.-proposed ceasefire.
Although Iran agreed to the ceasefire Wednesday, that armistice is on shaky ground after Israel bombed Lebanon hours later, killing 200 people.
Rashin Mazaheri, an Iranian living in San Antonio who attended the protest, told the Current that although she may disagree with the leadership of the Islamic Republic, it’s not the job of the U.S. to violently interfere in the domestic policies of sovereign nations.
Cynthia Suarez, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which helped organize the protest, told the crowd that Trump’s Truth Social post will go down in history as the most “brazen examples of intent to commit mass murder” uttered by a world leader.
“This is the billionaire class’ war, not our war,” Suarez said. “The only thing that will stop this war permanently is continued pressure from us and the masses of people who will continue showing up in the streets.”
Photos by Jaime Monzon.
