Washington, DC – The National Iranian American Council issued the following statement in response to reports that Iran conducted missile strikes inside Israel:
- Our thoughts are with all those innocent civilians impacted by this mindless war – from Palestine to Lebanon to Iran and Israel.
- This is what a vacuum of American leadership and blind U.S. support of militarism has delivered – a spiraling conflict with mass devastation and rampant insecurity from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea.
- The Biden administration’s support for Israel’s escalate to de-escalate policy has massively failed. Many appear to have bought into the wrong notion that the conflicts across the region have military solutions, which is 100% false. Only through diplomacy can threats to Israel, the United States and Iran be reduced and security restored.
- It is clear that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is succeeding in its goal of dragging the U.S. into a wider war. This may benefit his personal political ambitions, but it is a disaster for everyone else. The blank check for Bibi must be cut.
- We call on policymakers not to fall back to a knee-jerk and blind defense of Israel in this moment of crisis, but instead to warn about the headlong plunge to wider war and urge diplomacy to halt the tit-for-tat cycle and move toward de-escalation and a ceasefire.