Jackson protest focuses on attack on Iran, treatment of Palestinians and crackdown on immigration ...Middle East

Since the U.S. and Israel began attacking Iran, every place Delana Karimi-Tavakol’s family previously lived has been bombed.

Karimi-Tavakol is an Iranian-American who lives in Jackson. Both sides of her family are from Iran. Though none of her relatives live there now, some of her friends and family members’ friends have been impacted.

She was among those protesting Thursday with Mississippi for a Just World, at the corner of Woodrow Wilson and North State Street in Jackson, to oppose the Trump administration’s ongoing attack on Iran.

The group’s “Stop the War on Humanity” protest opposes the attack on Iran, what the group believes is the inhumane treatment of Palestinians and the crackdown on immigration in the United States.

The protesters said the attack on Iran is aggressive and unconstitutional. They’re also concerned that underprivileged Black and brown people in the U.S. military will be most at-risk in a ground invasion, and that the money spent on the war could be used to improve the lives of U.S. citizens.

“It’s an endless war that is going on on humanity, and so we wanted to bring attention to that,” said Candace Abdul-Tawwab, co-founder and executive director of Mississippi for a Just World.

The group is asking supporters to sign a petition. Faridah Abdul-Tawwab, director of research and education for the group, called on Mississippians to call their congressional representatives to urge them to vote in favor of a war powers resolution requiring congressional approval for President Donald Trump to continue the war.

“If an action, if an initiative, if a policy, if it supports human dignity, we’re asking Mississippians to support it,” Abdul-Tawwab said.

“And if it’s an assault on human dignity, if it somehow undermines human dignity in any way, shape or form, whoever supports it … we’re asking that you oppose it on the grounds of a shared humanity.”

Early Saturday, the U.S. and Israel launched joint attacks against Iran as part of a military campaign the U.S. is calling Operation Epic Fury. In retaliation, Iran has launched attacks against U.S., Israeli and allied targets in the region.

The conflict has spread across Persian Gulf states, with no clear end in sight.

The death toll in Iran is over 1,230. Among the casualties were Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, several top government officials and at least 175 people at a girls’ school. Six American service members were killed in Kuwait on the second day of the conflict.

On Wednesday, Republicans in the Senate voted down a war powers resolution that would have required the president to get Congress’ approval before taking further action against Iran. The House voted down a similar resolution Thursday. 

While Karimi-Tavakol said she opposes the regime and wants Iran to be free, she doesn’t believe foreign intervention is the right path. She echoed the belief that the money spent on this conflict would be better spent on U.S. domestic issues such as health care, education and infrastructure.

“As a Mississippian, if you have any issues at all with your quality of life around you, then you have a problem with the U.S. war machine, because it is taking money straight out of your pocket … and into bombs to kill other people,” she said.

She also expressed concern about the loss of human life, ecosystems and culture.

“We’re losing our medicines. We’re losing our biodiversity. We’re losing our histories. We’re losing our heritage every time a bomb falls,” she said.

Karimi-Tavakol said many other Iranian-Americans in Mississippi are against their protest.

While she said she can’t speak for them, she thought some people, including a lot of Iranian-Americans, were “engaging in a kind of black-and-white thinking where either you’re against the Iranian government or you’re against the U.S. and Israel.”

She wore a pair of gold earrings with the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom,” written in Persian. She wore them because she believes these things should be central, and they aren’t in war. The slogan originates from a Kurdish women’s movement and was popularized after the murder of Mahsa Amini, whose suspicious death in 2022 inspired a protest movement in Iran.

“If you support women, if you support life, if you support freedom, then you oppose this war period,” Karimi-Tavakol said.

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