Condemning the US and Israel in Their Attacks on Iran
March 1, 2026
The Butch Ware for Governor campaign unequivocally condemns the attacks on Iran led by the United States and Israel and calls for an immediate ceasefire.
We call for an immediate de-escalation and for the US to negotiate with Tehran in good faith.
We condemn the illegal attempts by the U.S. government to enact a regime change and denying the people of Iran the right to self-determination, sovereignty and autonomy.
We call upon the United Nations to hold the US and Israel accountable for violating Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, specifically their failure to settle “international disputes by peaceful means” and refrain from “threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
We extend our solidarity with the Iranian people who are rightfully protesting the failures of their government and are saddened by the loss of over 200 innocent lives in the attacks on Saturday, February 28th.
One might ask, how does the governor’s race in California have anything to do with Iran or politics in West Asia (or as Americans like to call the region, an outdated orientalist term, the Middle East)?
Some Americans may believe that local and state politics have nothing to do with foreign policy or global politics. In reality, that is far from the truth.
The California state government sends billions of tax dollars to Israel so it can continue to carry out its genocide in Palestine. Local ports such as the Port of Oakland are key in sending fighter jets to Israel, a key partner in the illegal attacks on Iran.
The bombs falling on Tehran are being paid for by the billions of tax dollars stolen from our communities here in California. While the Trump administration claims it has “no choice” but to strike abroad, it is making a very deliberate choice at home: to defund SNAP (food stamps), cut Medicaid and Medicare, and instead heavily fund and unleash ICE agents like a paramilitary force in our neighborhoods, America’s own brand of state-sponsored terror.
From the Central Valley to the Bay Area, we are seeing families torn apart by the same brutal military policies used to justify the invasion of sovereign nations. Whether it is a drone strike in West Asia or an ICE raid in East L.A., the message from Washington is clear: your life is disposable if it serves the interests of the U.S. empire.
Global politics are incredibly important in our race. Acknowledging this is not leftist purity testing or peddling to policy wonks. Rather, it’s a very clear litmus test that tells you whether your elected officials in California are willing to use YOUR tax dollars to starve, maim, displace, and murder innocent families abroad, while our families struggle to pay rent and make ends meet in California.
When Butch Ware is elected as Governor of California, he will completely divest the state of California from Israel and redirect those funds to Californians. We will:
Build affordable social housing
Fund a single payer healthcare system (CalCare or Medicare for All in California)
Expand public transit
Make state and community colleges tuition-free
Abolish ICE in California by closing detention centers and outlawing local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, as New Mexico has
Fund worker-owned cooperatives and demand a living wage for all workers
Getting Dr. Ware elected doesn’t just mean a better life for Californians, but it means pulling back the unwarranted and illegal financial and political support for the brutal policies of U.S. empire in Iran and in all of western Asia.
About Butch Ware for California Governor 2026
Dr. Rudolph “Butch” Ware is running for Governor of California with the Green Party. He is a longtime organizer and movement builder, and is a tenured professor of African and Islamic history at University of California, Santa Barbara. He ran as the Vice Presidential candidate alongside Jill Stein in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. His campaign is fully grassroots and does not accept corporate or super PAC donations. His platform includes guaranteed affordable housing, single payer healthcare, free community and state colleges for California residents, fully funded and expanded public transit, and more.
Website: https://www.butchware4gov.org/
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