Louisville protesters rally against US strikes on Iran nuclear sites

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- People in Louisville protested against fighting in Iran.

A protest was held on Baxter Avenue Sunday evening after the U.S. strikes, confirmed by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, hit the Fordo and Natanz enrichment facilities, as well as the Isfahan nuclear site. Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog said there were no immediate signs of radioactive contamination around them.

With the attack that Washington said was carried out without detection, the United States inserted itself into a war it spent decades trying to avoid.

"No war, please end this war and please engage in diplomacy to solve our problems," said Farah Mokhtareizadeh, whose family is from Iran.

The group called the decision to bomb Iran a war crime, saying it was unprovoked and violates the UN Charter, international law and the U.S. Constitution.

"We are extremely concerned that we are on the verge of playing with fire, that we are going to start a wider war in the Middle East if we continue along this track," said Michael Slider with Kentucky Citizens for Democracy. "The only thing that's going to change all of this is for Congress to take back their war powers. We have to have a Congress that has a backbone and to start standing up to this."

There were similar protests in at least 15 other states.

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