Leftist plan to protest outside the White House Saturday to condemn the U.S.’s elimination of Iran’s top general, Qasem Soleimani.
The protest is one of several planned across the country — from Times Square in New York City, to outside Trump Tower in Chicago — to voice opposition to military strikes in Iraq and the deployment of U.S. troops to the Middle East.
Organizers include several anti-war groups including Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) and CODEPINK.
“The Trump administration and Pentagon have moved to start a war with Iran by assassinating Qassem Soleimani,” ANSWER wrote in a statement on its website:
The targeted assassination and murder of a central leader of Iran is designed to initiate a new war. Unless the people of the United States rise up and stop it, this war will engulf the whole region and could quickly turn into a global conflict of unpredictable scope and potentially the gravest consequences.
The protest in Washington, D.C., is expected to begin at noon Eastern.