CAIR Condemns US Attack on Iran: “Illegal Act of War” for Netanyahu

A CAIR press release con­demned the US attack on Iran ifol­low­ing Amer­i­can airstrikes on Iran­ian nuclear facil­i­ties. On June 21, 2025, the Coun­cil on Amer­i­can-Islam­ic Rela­tions issued a state­ment from Nation­al Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Nihad Awad denounc­ing Pres­i­dent Trump’s mil­i­tary action against Iran’s nuclear sites at For­dow, Natanz and Isfa­han as an “ille­gal and unjus­ti­fied act of war” that pri­or­i­tizes Ben­jamin Netanyahu’s agen­da over Amer­i­can inter­ests and threat­ens region­al esca­la­tion. The arti­cle begins:

The Coun­cil on Amer­i­can-Islam­ic Rela­tions (CAIR), the nation’s largest Mus­lim civ­il rights and advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion, today con­demned Pres­i­dent Trump’s attack on Iran as an “ille­gal and unjus­ti­fied act of war” that pri­or­i­tizes the wish­es of Ben­jamin Netanyahu over the Amer­i­can peo­ple and threat­ens to drag our nation into a wider war in the region. US forces con­duct­ed airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facil­i­ties in For­dow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Read more: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-condemns-u-s-attack-on-iran-as-illegal-and-unjustified-act-of-war-that-prioritizes-netanyahu-over-american-people/

Key Points

• CAIR argues the attack con­tra­dicts U.S. intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty con­clu­sions that Iran was not seek­ing nuclear weapons, com­par­ing it to false infor­ma­tion pre­ced­ing the Iraq War.
• The orga­ni­za­tion warns that Netanyahu’s “extrem­ist gov­ern­ment” des­per­ate­ly sought to make Amer­i­ca “more com­plic­it” with its Gaza oper­a­tions and region­al attacks.
• CAIR had pre­vi­ous­ly warned Trump that Israel’s “zero enrich­ment” demand was designed to scut­tle nuclear nego­ti­a­tions and lead to war.
• The state­ment calls for end­ing fur­ther action against Iran and halt­ing U.S. sup­port for what it terms “a rogue nation” seek­ing region­al dom­i­nance through violence.

CAIR & the Global Muslim Brotherhood

The Coun­cil on Amer­i­can Islam­ic Rela­tions (CAIR) describes itself as “a grass­roots civ­il rights and advo­ca­cy group and as “Amer­i­ca’s largest Islam­ic civ­il lib­er­ties group.” CAIR was found­ed in 1994 by three offi­cers of the Islam­ic Asso­ci­a­tion of Pales­tine, part of the U.S. Hamas infra­struc­ture at that time.  Doc­u­ments dis­cov­ered in the course of the ter­ror­ism tri­al of the Holy Land Foun­da­tion con­firmed that the founders and cur­rent lead­ers of CAIR were part of the Pales­tine Com­mit­tee of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and that CAIR itself is part of the US. Mus­lim Brotherhood.

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The Global Muslim Brotherhood & Iran: Tactical Alliances and Influence Networks

The rela­tion­ship between the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Iran is shaped by prag­mat­ic alliances that often tran­scend his­tor­i­cal Sun­ni-Shia divi­sions, dri­ven by mutu­al oppo­si­tion to West­ern influ­ence, Israel, and shared region­al adver­saries. The coali­tions between Iran­ian-backed groups and left­ist orga­ni­za­tions in Europe and the prac­ti­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion around finan­cial and advo­ca­cy issues for Mus­lims and Iran­ian immi­grants illus­trate oper­a­tional align­ment. The Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Dai­ly Watch high­light­ed spe­cif­ic instances such as the Inter­na­tion­al Union of Mus­lim Schol­ars host­ing meet­ings between Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Iran­ian rep­re­sen­ta­tives, demon­strat­ing direct engage­ment at the lead­er­ship lev­el. The close ties between Hamas and Iran—despite Hamas’s pub­lic denials of ongo­ing Mus­lim Broth­er­hood affiliation—reveal a per­sis­tent web of finan­cial, polit­i­cal, and oper­a­tional coop­er­a­tion, with Hamas lead­ers fre­quent­ly vis­it­ing Iran and both sides par­tic­i­pat­ing in joint ini­tia­tives and media cam­paigns. Addi­tion­al­ly, orga­ni­za­tions like CAIR have wel­comed nuclear agree­ments with Iran and joined coali­tions oppos­ing mil­i­tary action against the coun­try, while plan­ning del­e­ga­tions to Iran to address issues such as the release of jailed jour­nal­ists, fur­ther exem­pli­fy­ing the prac­ti­cal and advo­ca­cy-based dimen­sions of these alliances. These rela­tion­ships are sus­tained by shared geopo­lit­i­cal inter­ests, includ­ing coun­ter­ing West­ern poli­cies and region­al rivals, and are rein­forced by coor­di­nat­ed influ­ence oper­a­tions and media outreach.

Exter­nal References:

1. Mis­matched Expec­ta­tions: Iran and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood After the Arab Uprisings

2. Is the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Help­ing Iran Skirt US Sanctions?

3. Iran­ian Sup­port for Hamas

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