US attack on Iran: JI announces country-wide protests

Hafiz Naeem condemns 'open act of hostility', urges Muslim Ummah to unite against Israel, US

ISLAMABAD:

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has announced that it will carry out protests across the country on Monday (today) against US aggression on Iran.

In a statement on Sunday, JI Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman condemned the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities as regional tensions escalate, calling the attack an open act of hostility following sustained Israeli support.

The call for protests came as in a dramatic move that threw Washington into the thick of Israel's conflict with Tehran, US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that American forces had "obliterated" Iran's key nuclear sites in a sweeping overnight assault, codenamed 'Midnight Hammer', raising the stakes across an already tinderbox Middle East.

"After backing Israel, Washington has now come out openly. The US aggression is tantamount to destroying global peace," he said.

He urged the Muslim Ummah to unite against the actions of both the United States and Israel.

Hafiz Naeem instructed all party cadres and responsible leaders to organise demonstrations nationwide under the slogan "Down with America".

"If the US does not immediately halt this war, we will escalate our campaign into a broader national protest movement," he warned.

Meanwhile, addressing the Youth Digital Summit in Islamabad, Hafiz Naeem recalled that former US President Donald Trump had claimed they would wait two weeks before taking any action, but he "broke that promise on the very first day".

"The United States no longer values moral considerations and speaks only the language of power," the JI chief said. "America's downfall has begun. All conscientious people around the world must unite against oppressors."

He added that for nearly two years, Israel has been carrying out a massacre of Muslims in Palestine, and that this ongoing brutality must be opposed globally.