LIZ PEEK: Democrats rage over Trump’s Iran strikes as exiles cheer ayatollah’s fall

Leftists successful the U.S. are earnestly confused. While Iranians astir the satellite observe the decease of the thuggish Ayatollah Khamanei, who ruled their state with an robust fist, liberals successful the U.S. are condemning President Donald Trump’s warfare to liberate the Persian nation.  

Opposition to the U.S.-Israel associated onslaught connected Iran was wide and swift, powered successful portion by Trump Derangement Syndrome — if he’s down it, they’re reliably against it — and besides tinged with antisemitism.  

The fume had not yet cleared from the bombings successful Iran earlier Democrats started shrieking their objections, with Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy, for instance, calling it "dangerously amerciable and a mistake of staggering scale," and denouncing the president arsenic a "would-be dictator." Murphy has besides called Israel's argumentation successful Gaza and successful the West Bank "immoral", and precocious announced that helium would not enactment further subject assistance to Israel.

Anti-Israel Democrats successful the House were particularly strident, with "Squad" subordinate Rashida Tlaib from Michigan posting, "It's wide that the genocidal govt of Israel doesn't attraction astir children + quality beingness including our ain loved ones successful the military." She besides posted, "The authorities of Israel is addicted to bombing hospitals, schools, exile camps which are each warfare crimes." 

Democrats person been pulling distant from their accepted backing of Israel for immoderate time, and particularly since the acold near took clasp of their party. Axios reported successful December that the DNC’s still-secret "autopsy" of wherefore Vice President Kamala Harris was defeated by Trump successful 2024 concluded that the erstwhile VP "lost important enactment due to the fact that of the Biden administration's attack to the warfare successful Gaza…" 

Iran has brought thing but bloodshed and demolition to Israel, the United States and the Middle East for decades.

That is, successful sifting the ashes of the 2024 predetermination for clues arsenic to wherefore an inarticulate campaigner who admitted she couldn’t deliberation of a happening she’d bash otherwise from the wildly unpopular Joe Biden went down successful flames, Democrat officials determined…it was Israel’s fault! Democrats are speedy learners — their enactment of the Jewish authorities is dwindling fast.

It isn’t conscionable Democrats piling on. Criticism besides came from far-right conspiracy theorists, too.

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We besides heard disapproval from the utterly worthless and anti-Israel U.N., with Secretary-General António Guterres condemning the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes connected Iran and demanding contiguous negotiations "to propulsion the region, and our world, backmost from the brink." 

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres urges calm pursuing the speech of subject strikes betwixt Israel and Iran connected June 13, 2025. (LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP)

Guterres has overseen a U.N. with "a glaring anti-Israel bias, advancing biased and one-sided efforts to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state", reports the pro-Jewish radical AIPAC. A bias AIPAC tin papers and which, astonishingly, has "escalated dramatically since Hamas’ October 7 attack."

Spineless European leaders stood connected the sidelines, initially distancing themselves from the U.S.-Israeli initiative. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer astatine archetypal declined to springiness the U.S. support to usage its aerial bases, frankincense forcing American jets to undertake a 20-plus hr formation to transportation retired their mission. He past relented, earning ridicule from each sides.   

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Of course, witless students besides weighed in, with Columbia University’s astir renowned anti-Israel group, liable for past year’s "encampment" built to protestation the Gaza conflict, posting    "death to America" successful Persian after the U.S. and Israel killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. That prompted Sen. Tex Cruz, R-Texas, to request that overseas students sending retired specified anti-American messages beryllium "deported immediately." He’s right.

One pupil protester told an interviewer that the U.S. "should align with Iranian authorities alternatively of Israel due to the fact that Iran "is not fascist.""

Zohran Mamdani, the recently installed Muslim politician of New York, harshly condemned President Trump’s warfare with Iran, saying, "Today’s subject strikes connected Iran — carried retired by the United States and Israel — people a catastrophic escalation successful an amerciable warfare of aggression." He besides said, "Additionally, I privation to talk straight to Iranian New Yorkers: you are portion of the cloth of this metropolis — you are our neighbors, tiny concern owners, students, artists, workers, and assemblage leaders." The politician assured them, "You volition beryllium harmless here." 

Mamdani misread the room, assuming that Iranians surviving successful the U.S. would respond arsenic helium had to the onslaught connected the mullahs. Instead, joyful Iranians gathered successful Times Square to observe the extremity of 1 of the astir hated and savage regimes successful history.

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They seemingly felt perfectly safe, arsenic so they were.

There are surely valid reasons to fearfulness a subject confrontation with Iran. The state hosts a immense arsenal of ballistic missiles, it has a well-trained and present vengeful military, and it tin disrupt the world’s lipid proviso by mining the Straits of Hormuz. Also, it is simply a ample state of 90 cardinal people; Iran’s citizens whitethorn hatred the mullahs but they person nary weapons with which to bring down the theocracy.

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But Iran has brought thing but bloodshed and demolition to Israel, the United States and the Middle East for decades. There could beryllium nary bid oregon advancement successful the portion portion Iran continues to money its panic proxies and doggedly pursues long-range missiles and a atomic bomb. 

Democrats who mourn the scrapping of President Obama’s atomic woody with Iran, protesting that the JCPOA was preventing the authorities from acquiring a nuke, surely cognize better. The woody was earnestly flawed, it was unverifiable and from time 1 the mullahs prevented U.N. inspectors from carrying retired agreed-upon certification of the pact.

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President Trump has ended the mullahs’ reign of panic and agreed the portion successful a mode nary 1 could person imagined.

This is simply a righteous endeavor. Let america anticipation that connected the different side, a escaped Iran volition go a trusted ally.

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