Johnson, Rubio, and Hegseth have made openly Islamophobic comments in remarks advocating for the war.

Top Republican leaders are spewing blatant Islamophobia to justify the U.S. and Israel’s horrific war on Iran, drawing condemnation from Muslim rights advocates. In one instance of patently hateful comments, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Wednesday that Iranians have a “misguided religion” that seeks the destruction of the U.S. “[Iranians] want to wipe Israel off the face…

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days ago

    “And in defiance of every president since Jimmy Carter, the Iranian regime has pursued the means to acquire a nuclear weapon, so they could take that madness and that ideology to its full conclusion.”

    And the US had nothing to do with Iran’s current political state.