Anti-US protests mobilize as Trump announces military operations against Iran

In the darkness of the night, 10 minutes before President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Israel were attacking Iran, a network of U.S. nonprofits aligned with China, Russia and Tehran mobilized the foot soldiers to hit American streets.

The Shanghai-based groups, financed by American-born tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham and regularly repeating messages from America’s enemies, took action even as the first bombs were being dropped. The almost instantaneous response was the latest salvo in the information war against the United States; foot soldiers were called to come together at protests and echo anti-US speeches.

The ANSWER Coalition, a nonprofit project whose leaders describe themselves as Marxists and communists, announced at 2:34 a.m.: “TODAY IS NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY ACTION DAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN!”

He announced his network: groups that have long supported the regime in Iran, including the National Iranian American Council, 50501, American Muslims for Palestine, People’s Forum, Palestinian Youth Movement, and CodePink. The organizations did not respond to requests for comment. Singham did not respond to a request for comment.

The network set the tone for its anti-US messaging, calling the war an “unprovoked, illegal bombing of Iran.” He even created a website area for coordinated actions: http://ANSWERCoalition.org.

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Ten minutes later, at 2:44 a.m., Trump released a video confirming the attack on Iran and told the world: “Recently, the US military began major combat operations in Iran.

Eight minutes later, at 2:52 a.m., the People’s Forum, a New York-based activist center funded by Singham as an “incubator” for socialist groups, issued an “urgent” call to action for a protest in Times Square.

“🚨 URGENT ACTION DAY TO STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN IN NYC: TODAY, 2/28 at 2pm in Times Square,” the People’s Forum said.

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The ANSWER Coalition conducts its operations from the People’s Forum headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The People’s Forum statement echoed the message of a new video released the night before the Chinese Communist Party’s attacks, which framed the United States as an imperial and colonial power. The People’s Forum said:

“This war serves no one but a small elite group and oil executives and is a continuation of the genocide that has been going on for more than two years in Palestine and the US-Israeli attacks throughout the region,” the People’s Forum said in a statement. he said.

The same network has also been quickly mobilized in past high-profile national security incidents. The group had previously marched in support of Nicolás Maduro after US authorities arrested him and his wife, Sylvia Flores, on January 3 for alleged ties to narcoterrorism.

Earlier this month, when the State Department sent a report to the US Congress raising concerns about this network. stated“Organizations like Code Pink and People’s Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and protect narco-terrorists like Maduro while benefiting from a cash flow from a donor network with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”

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A person holds a picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iranian demonstrators protest US-Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, February 28, 2026. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asian News Agency) via Reuters)

Last summer, the same coalition, including the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, and CodePink, marched in front of the White House under the banner “Withdraw from Iran.” This protest was coordinated with the National Iranian American Council and amplified by BreakThrough News, which published images of children holding anti-war signs on the White House fence.

During the night of the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, field officers immediately prepared printed signs, standardized messages and coordinated media amplification, according to sources familiar with the organizations. They combined anti-Israel activism, anti-ICE protests, and anti-Trump messaging into a single narrative opposing what organizers called the US “empire.” Their messages were in line with those of pro-regime protests in Iran.

At 4:31am, BreakThrough News, a project of BreakThrough BT Media, a non-profit organization funded by Singham was promoted On the day of the “Emergency” protests, “BREAKING NEWS” was covered as news. It shares the same address as the People’s Forum, and its editor-in-chief, Ben Becker, is the son of Brian Becker, a co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition.

Members of the Socialism and Liberation Party and the ANSWER Coalition arrive minutes before the start of a protest in support of the regime ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran. (Asra Nomani/Fox News Digital)

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At 7:19 a.m., BreakThrough News published video of the alleged US attack on a school; this video was repeated by the network’s affiliates and amplified to portray the United States as an unbridled aggressor. The United States has not yet commented on the alleged attack.

At 9.09 a.m. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the name He calls for the defense of Iran’s “sovereignty” and “territorial integrity” to end the attacks, his language consistent with the rhetoric of the US protest infrastructure.

By then, as many Americans were just beginning to wake up, the protest infrastructure was fully engaged in circulating social media graphics, local chapters were alerted, and Times Square was once again positioned as a stage for the rapid mobilization of the foot soldiers who would broadcast images worldwide, in the predictable language of Americans mobilizing a “grassroots” campaign against the US war against Iran.

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By 11 a.m., protests had spread to 16 headquarters of the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation: Chicago; Washington, DC; Akron, Cincinnati and Cleveland in Ohio; Asheville and Charlotte in North Carolina; Boston, Burlington, Virginia; San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Davis and Los Angeles, California, Providence, RI; Tucson, Arizona and Eugene, Ore.

A network of pro-regime organizations in Chicago launched His own public statements repeating messages against the “US empire”.

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