• The Green Party of California condemns the assassination of the Iranian religious leaders by the U.S. and Israel

March 6, 2026 – The Green Party of California rises in solidarity with the Iranian people with our respect for their sovereignty and their right to self determination and to be free of war, intervention and occupation by the U.S. or any other foreign government.

We categorically condemn the military attacks by Israel and the U.S. on Iran and the assassination of the Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. 

We demand the U.S. government immediately:

• Implement a ceasefire and stop all military attacks in Iran that have already cost hundreds of civilian lives, including children.

• Return to the existing diplomatic negotiations with Iran with the goal of long term peace in the region.

• Lift the 50-year economic warfare by sanctions on Iran that have devastated the country’s economy. 

• Respect the sovereignty of all nations according to the UN Charter and international law.

• Abide by the War Powers Act that requires Congressional approval for the use of U.S. armed forces.

• Comply with the Leahy Law and halt the illegal funding and shipments of all weapons to Israel, which have been used to attack Iran and neighboring countries.

The Green Party opposes ALL U.S. military and economically coercive actions that have destabilized countries across the world, subjecting millions of people to displacement, dispossession, injury, and death.

Iran has been no exception. Throughout its recent history, Iran has endured U.S. interventions by deposing leaders, manufactured coups, and brutal economic sanctions. The empire’s plan for Iran goes back 72 years when a CIA plot overthrew a democratically elected Iranian socialist leader who planned to nationalize Iran’s oil. Empire could not allow that!

The recent domestic unrest in Iran was sparked as a result of a 50-year economic warfare of sanctions that collapsed Iran’s economy in December of 2025 The people of Iran rightfully took to the streets in protest demanding better living conditions, economic relief and accountability from the Islamic Republic of Iran's leadership. 

As early as June 2025, an Israeli funded propaganda campaign was at work manufacturing support for Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, a U.S. resident for 47 years, and a strong ally to Israel. 

Reports of Mossad agents and agitators working in Iran during 2025 started surfacing in recent months and eventually BOTH Israeli Officials and former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo have proudly admitted that Mossad agents were operating in Tehran and walking beside Iranians in the streets.

The U.S. CIA playbook is the same in many countries where indigenous people’s legitimate movements against their own governments are co-opted to destabilize, exploit and fracture the country to profit the U.S. war machine and foreign interests.

First, the war and surveillance industrial complex rakes in billions of tax dollars for military operations, followed by western vulture capitalists who come to plunder resources and reap the spoils of war.

The Green Party of California believes that:

- No U.S. government military intervention, orchestrated coups, or warfare has ever benefited the people.

- No democracy has ever been exported from the U.S. because the U.S. government has been suppressing democracy right here at home.

- No bombs destroying precious infrastructure and taking innocent lives have ever solved poverty and scarcity in countries whose resources have been plundered by multinational corporations.