U.S. veterans protested against the war with Iran in Washington — Reuters
In Washington, a group of American veterans and their family members staged a large-scale act of civil disobedience inside the U.S. Capitol.
This was reported by Reuters.
The protesters demanded an immediate end to the war with Iran, which they consider illegal and destructive to both nations.
The protest took place in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill.
About 120 participants, including representatives of the veterans’ organization “About Face: Veterans Against the War,” unfurled banners reading “End the War with Iran” and “We Can’t Afford Another War.”
The protest had a deep symbolic meaning: veterans, some of whom were in military uniform, held red tulips—a symbol of remembrance for the fallen Iranians.
A flag-folding ceremony was also held in honor of American service members who have already lost their lives in this conflict.
Capitol Police intervened after activists refused to leave the building.
According to official reports, several dozen people were arrested and led out of the building one by one in handcuffs amid anti-war chants from those present.
Mike Prisner, director of the Center on Conscience and War, who was also detained, stated that this war has already become a crisis for the U.S. administration.
He noted that an increasing number of active-duty service members are beginning to voice their disagreement with orders and are filing applications for conscientious objector status.
The protesters emphasized that their experience serving in previous conflicts gives them the moral right to warn the nation against “endless wars.”
They called on Congress to take the initiative and use financial leverage to stop the war machine, which, in their words, is destroying the future of young Americans.
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