Erik Sperling 🌍 (@eriksperling) 's Twitter Profile
Erik Sperling 🌍

@eriksperling

Executive Director @JustFP.
Past: Policy Adviser/Counsel @RepRoKhanna @RepJohnConyers @HouseForeign.
JD @GeorgetownLaw
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Just Foreign Policy (@justfp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iran bill drafted by House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems & House Intelligence Committee is "worse than not having a war powers resolution" Anti-war advocates worry that the House leadership measure could actually wind up strengthening Trump’s justification for launching further strikes on Iran.

Iran bill drafted by <a href="/HouseForeign/">House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems</a> &amp; <a href="/HouseIntelDems/">House Intelligence Committee</a> is "worse than not having a war powers resolution"

Anti-war advocates worry that the House leadership measure could actually wind up strengthening Trump’s justification for launching further strikes on Iran.
Ro Khanna (@rokhanna) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really? I am endorsing Zohran Kwame Mamdani because he understands affordability for working class New Yorkers. I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 about no war in Iran. I agree with Mark Cuban about new businesses in rural & factory towns. Big coalition for peace abroad, jobs at home.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (@chrisvanhollen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nothing I learned from the briefing today would justify President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran or his failure to obtain Congressional approval as required by the Constitution. My full statement:

Nothing I learned from the briefing today would justify President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran or his failure to obtain Congressional approval as required by the Constitution.

My full statement:
NIAC (@niacouncil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"U.S. intelligence has consistently shown that more time for diplomacy existed. Furthermore, the results of this strike show that the only durable path to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is through diplomacy – something that may now be more difficult to achieve."

Congressman Greg Casar (@repcasar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the past month alone, 549 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza have been killed while waiting for food and aid. Over 4,000 have been shot and wounded. "It's a killing field," one soldier said. "They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures... just live fire."

Branko Marcetic (@bmarchetich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Outgoing CENTCOM commander Michael Kurilla, a close Israel ally inside the WH, has recently been revealed to be an influential pro-war voice who urged Trump into war with Iran. Both aspects are part of Kurilla's wider vision for the ME, which is focused on combating China. A🧵:

Branko Marcetic (@bmarchetich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yet Kurilla's vision may be a victim of its own success: the huge human toll & list of international laws broken to create today's isolated Iran has also turned ME populations against the US & actually benefited China. Read & share here: jacobin.com/2025/06/kurill…

Just Foreign Policy (@justfp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Overwhelming pressure from the American people and Congress already succeeded in making President Donald J. Trump change course and reject regime change war. Senators like Senator Todd Young Senator Jerry Moran Mike Lee and Senate Republicans should prove that they stand with the American people and vote YES.

Erik Sperling 🌍 (@eriksperling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Americans are so opposed to endless war that even the pro-war Senators have to argue this: Trump’s strikes “didn’t start a war,” Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, a Republican, said ahead of the vote. “They ended a war.” Great that everyone agrees that ENDING WAR is the priority

NIAC (@niacouncil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While this vote is very disappointing, these fundamental truths do not change: Donald Trump has no authorization for war with Iran and the American people don’t want him to start one. Still, that truth doesn’t absolve the Senate from the abdication of their duty to our democracy

The Intercept (@theintercept) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Biden’s failure to reenter Obama’s nuclear deal helped create the risk for a potentially catastrophic U.S. war against Iran. interc.pt/445FKnY

Alex JER-dun (@alexjordanatl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

diplomacy advocates were scolded by "progressives"— they insisted this wasn't some bloody stalemate, Ukraine would win! 3 years later, Russia has rained innumerable death & destruction on Ukrainians, while Kyiv's negotiating leverage has worsened. the lib hawks were DEAD WRONG

diplomacy advocates were scolded by "progressives"— they insisted this wasn't some bloody stalemate, Ukraine would win!

3 years later, Russia has rained innumerable death &amp; destruction on Ukrainians, while Kyiv's negotiating leverage has worsened. 

the lib hawks were DEAD WRONG
Erik Sperling 🌍 (@eriksperling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Sanctions cost us a lot of money" Trump reveals truth about US sanctions that most DC elites try to hide Says he's considering "waiving" sanctions on Iran, like he did for Syria: "You get more sometimes with honey than you do with vinegar... I want them to have a good life"

Nick Cleveland-Stout (@nick_clevelands) 's Twitter Profile Photo

McGurk is also simultaneously a CNN Global Affairs Analyst, and was all over CNN the last few weeks making the case for bombing Iran without disclosing that he works for an investor in Pentagon contractors

McGurk is also simultaneously a CNN Global Affairs Analyst, and was all over CNN the last few weeks making the case for bombing Iran without disclosing that he works for an investor in Pentagon contractors
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Scott Horton discusses Defend The Guard with Tucker Carlson “There’s a huge movement in this country now called Defend the Guard which is led by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. And they’re trying to get state legislatures to pass laws forbidding the