{"id":152508,"date":"2020-01-27T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=152508"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:39:30","slug":"we-apologize-for-trumps-reckless-aggression-us-peace-advocates-say-in-open-letter-to-iranian-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/01\/we-apologize-for-trumps-reckless-aggression-us-peace-advocates-say-in-open-letter-to-iranian-people\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Apologize&#8217; for Trump&#8217;s Reckless Aggression, US Peace Advocates Say in Open Letter to Iranian People"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The letter, from activist group CodePink, comes ahead of peace demonstrations scheduled Saturday in 200 cities around the world.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_152509\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/iran-codepink-usa-activism.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152509\" class=\"wp-image-152509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/iran-codepink-usa-activism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/iran-codepink-usa-activism.jpg 955w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/iran-codepink-usa-activism-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/iran-codepink-usa-activism-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CodePink protesters at a Congressional hearing on Iran in 2015.<br \/>\u00a0(Photo: CodePink)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>24 Jan 2020 &#8211; <\/em>The peace advocacy group CodePink is collecting American signatures for a letter apologizing to the Iranian people for U.S. aggression and warmaking, particularly President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision on January 3 to order the assassination by drone strike of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani while Soleimani was in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Americans committed to peace and the safety of all people, we, the undersigned, apologize for the\u00a0actions of our reckless, hate-filled president,&#8221; the letter says, &#8220;and pledge to do everything we can to stop Trump&#8217;s\u00a0aggression, remove the crippling sanctions you are suffering under, and resume a process of\u00a0diplomacy with your country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People everywhere are signing CODEPINK\u2019s open letter of apology to the people of Iran. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1qwKg0ozk\" >https:\/\/t.co\/d1qwKg0ozk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/medeabenjamin\/status\/1220317314463256576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >January 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Iran have been in a Cold-War style conflict for decades, but the Soleimani assassination marked a notable escalation in tensions.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet about Saturday&#8217;s demonstrations, CodePink cofounder Medea Benjamin <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/medeabenjamin\/status\/1220087715854737408\" >warned<\/a> that war was still a very real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think we avoided war with Iran a few weeks ago?&#8221; said Benjamin. &#8220;Think again. We are still on the brink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CodePink&#8217;s letter condemns in no uncertain terms the continuing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The recent U.S. actions towards Iran are the most dangerous and provocative of all of Donald\u00a0Trump&#8217;s foreign policy decisions,&#8221; reads the letter. &#8220;The assassination of Soleimani\u2014ordered by President Trump and\u00a0carried out on sovereign Iraqi soil\u2014risked the safety of the entire world, set a dangerous precedent,\u00a0and was likely illegal under international law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations, which are in 200 cities around the world, are set for Saturday. CodePink is joining more than 150 other sponsors for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Find a protest near you <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codepink.org\/01252020\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please accept our hand in friendship,&#8221; says the letter. &#8220;May the peacemakers prevail over those who sow hatred and discord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eoin-Higgins.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-152510 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eoin-Higgins-e1580112895265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Eoin Higgins is senior editor and staff writer for <\/em>Common Dreams<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/01\/24\/we-apologize-trumps-reckless-aggression-us-peace-advocates-say-open-letter-iranian?cd-origin=rss&amp;utm_term=AO&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsletter&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Weekly%20Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email\" >Go to Original \u2013 commondreams.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Jan 2020 &#8211; Letter from activist group CodePink: &#8220;As Americans committed to peace and the safety of all people, we, the undersigned, apologize for the actions of our reckless, hate-filled president,&#8221; the letter says, &#8220;and pledge to do everything we can to stop Trump&#8217;s aggression, remove the crippling sanctions you are suffering under, and resume a process of diplomacy with your country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":152509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,65,66],"tags":[229,120,267,1126,1050,504,742,767,109,287,1759,249,95,70,126,118],"class_list":["post-152508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-anglo-america","category-middle-east-north-africa","tag-activism","tag-conflict","tag-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-targeted-assassination","tag-trump","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275061,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152508\/revisions\/275061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}