Far Left, Anti-israel Voices Decry Trump Iran Strike, Dismiss Idea He's 'antiwar President'

Far-left and anti-Israel voices were among those who condemned President Donald Trump’s strikes connected Iranian atomic accommodation Saturday.

"This is simply a warfare crime," Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, posted connected X Saturday. "And a usurpation of nan UN Charter and nan NPT. The ‘antiwar president’. What a disgrace." 

Trump said Saturday that nan United States completed a "very successful" onslaught against Iranian atomic sites astatine Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, saying that Iran’s atomic enrichment installations person been "obliterated." 

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The acold left, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., condemned President Donald Trump’s strikes connected Iranian atomic accommodation connected Saturday. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images, left, Win McNamee/Getty Images, right. )

"Tonight, I tin study to nan world that nan strikes were a spectacular subject success," Trump said, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

"Iran's atomic enrichment facilities person been wholly and wholly obliterated," Trump added. "Iran, nan bully of nan Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, early attacks would beryllium acold greater and a batch easier."

But nan far-left is pushing back, pinch some, for illustration Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., calling nan strikes grounds for impeachment.

"The President’s disastrous determination to explosive Iran without authorization is simply a sedate usurpation of nan Constitution and Congressional War Powers,"  Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday connected X. "He has impulsively risked launching a warfare that whitethorn ensnare america for generations. It is perfectly and intelligibly grounds for impeachment."

Tommy Vietor, co-host of Pod Save America and a erstwhile charismatic nether President Barack Obama, said that Trump has brought nan U.S. into war. 

"Obama’s Iran atomic woody was moving until Trump pulled retired of it," Vietor said.

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Trump said Saturday that nan United States completed a "very successful" onslaught against Iranian atomic sites astatine Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. (Fox News)

"His ain unit warned him not to because nan replacement was war," Vietor added. "Well, now we’re astatine warfare pinch Iran because Trump is weak, stupid and hated Obama much than he cared astir preventing Iran from getting a nuke." 

"Media critic" Sana Saeed called nan strikes an enactment of war. 

"Lots of speculation astir nan U.S. strikes arsenic performative, astir Iran getting tipped disconnected (as tho immoderate state wouldn’t preemptively protect its targeted assets)," Saeed said. 

"Don’t autumn into it. The U.S. authorities authorized strikes connected a sovereign federation astatine nan behest of a overseas state presently waging warfare against that federation (and others)," she added. "The U.S., pinch these strikes, has entered nan warfare connected Iran. That’s what we cognize and what needs to framework our understanding. Were U.S. 'military goals' accomplished? Probably not - because really destroying nan atomic sites & assets kills nan (unjustified) pretext for a greater warfare connected Iran and ‘regime change’".

MSNBC's Chris Hayes said, "Just to beryllium crystal clear: bombing Iran is wholly illegal," while erstwhile ThinkProgress editor Judd Legum simply stated, "America has entered different unnecessary warfare successful nan Middle East."

Krystal Ball, a erstwhile MSNBC big and fervent Israel critic, wrote, "Trump did not get ‘dragged’ into war. He wasn’t caught disconnected defender by nan Israeli bombing. He greenlit a authorities alteration cognition aft pledging many times to explosive Iran connected nan run trail. Every 1 of these expected anti-war MAGA officials are absolute frauds."

In different station connected Bluesky, nan far-left "Mueller, She Wrote" relationship said, "We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our associated coercion task force. And sent a 3rd of nan FBI to thief ICE. And gutted nan National Security Council. And a drunk feline is successful complaint astatine nan Pentagon. And our intelligence friends astir apt won’t stock intel pinch us. Because group couldn’t ballot for a woman."

Trita Parsi, laminitis and erstwhile president of nan National Iranian American Council, said Saturday connected MSNBC that "I deliberation nan astir important point to understand successful this business that Donald Trump astir apt ensured that Iran will beryllium a atomic limb authorities 5 to 10 years from now, peculiarly if location is authorities change. Nothing motivates a state much to really spell for a atomic deterrence than having been bombed."

President Donald Trump addresses nan federation astir nan strikes connected Iran connected June 21, 2025.  (Pool)

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Trump's posture toward Iran has divided segments of his ain base, too, pinch immoderate connected nan correct saying an "America First" argumentation would not get nan state embroiled successful a Middle East conflict.

"Every clip America is connected nan verge of greatness, we get progressive successful different overseas war," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wrote connected X. "There would not beryllium bombs falling connected nan group of Israel if Netanyahu had not dropped bombs connected nan group of Iran first. Israel is simply a atomic equipped nation. This is not our fight. Peace is nan answer."