The US has launched an attack on Iran, further sensitizing the humanity, which is already hurt and exhausted by the news of Russia's attack on Ukraine and the daily casualties. US President Donald Trump, who won the last election with the announcement that the attack on sovereign Ukraine would end within 24 hours, has attacked seven countries in one year of his term. The legitimacy of the US's supposed mediation role has been automatically suspended after it joined another war, while the geopolitical question of the Russian attack on Ukraine has been ignored. Moreover, this war, which started from the border of Iran, is certain to spread at least throughout West Asia. It has not only caused immense material damage, but also the loss of lives of innocent civilians who are not directly involved in the war. Such a tragedy of war is unacceptable for the civilized world. 

After becoming president for the second time, Trump was the most vocal contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. For that, Trump was also grateful to them when names were proposed for him by people from Pakistan to the Prime Minister of Israel. However, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Since then, he has been mocking the Nobel Peace Prize. Not only that, he has attacked seven countries before and after the Nobel Peace Prize was announced. Immediately after taking the oath of office, Trump launched military attacks on Syria and Somalia in February 2025, Iraq and Yemen in March, Iran in June, Nigeria in December, and Venezuela in January this year. He had claimed to have completely destroyed Iran's nuclear plant when he attacked Iran six months ago. However, he has launched a fierce attack since Saturday, saying that a violent, religious, and authoritarian state like Iran should not have nuclear weapons.

There is no doubt that the support and sympathy of the world's civilized, democratic society for the Iranian regime cannot be. By suppressing citizens in the name of religious rule, atrocities against women, murdering protesting young students, and executing human rights activists, the Iranian regime has marked itself as the most brutal regime in modern history. Young students, women and democratic activists there are constantly protesting against it, and solidarity has also been expressed towards them from all over the world. But the entire right to change the regime of any country lies with the citizens of that country, and external intervention under any pretext is unacceptable from a theoretical, political, legal and humanitarian perspective. 

There are examples all over the world that external attacks, even if they satisfy the powerful countries, make the fight for democracy in the respective country more complicated. The latest example is Afghanistan. The US, which entered Afghanistan in 2001, had displaced the Taliban from Kabul, but after at least two hundred thousand lives were lost in two tense decades, it handed over the key to Kabul to the Taliban and returned to the US. Even from the wars in history from Vietnam to Iraq, the US has not been able to present any proud example. 

Not only America, the Ukraine war, which Russia said would be concluded in a week, has completed four years, but Ukraine has not given up. On the contrary, there are reports that Russia has lost about two hundred thousand military personnel. Therefore, it is not easy for any so-called weak nation to immediately lay down its arms, establish peace, and move forward on the journey of national harmony and prosperity. On the contrary, there are many examples of wars that prolong, cause extensive loss of wealth, give rise to extremist groups, and further weaken human values. 

Although US President Trump and his ally Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have claimed that this attack was carried out in favor of the democratic people of Iran. However, there are reports that not only Iranian military bases but also public buildings and schools were hit in the first day of the attack. According to official information provided by the Iranian government, the Iranian government claims that at least 82 girls were killed in the attack on a school in the city of Minav. Similarly, the government there claims that pedestrians walking on the streets of Tehran were also killed. Whenever and wherever there is a war, the first target of such innocent, unarmed civilians is. Therefore, millions of residents of Tehran are forced to leave their homes to save their lives. It is scary to imagine what their homes will be like when they return one day. Therefore, the Iranian people are the ones who suffer the most from this attack, which is said to be in favor of the rights of the Iranian people. There is no doubt about it. 

It is easy to start a war, but difficult to end it. It is not within the competence of any powerful country to determine how the war will spread and how it will drag on. On Saturday, Iran reached the UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain on the same day that the war began. Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, and Oman have US military bases. In response to the attack on itself, Iran has targeted US bases in the Middle East. This has also increased tensions between Middle Eastern countries that are not directly involved in the war, which is not their interest or choice. In this way, having to fight a war that they did not start does not serve regional and humanitarian values, and therefore such a war must end immediately. 

President Trump has defended his move, saying that Iran's hysteria poses a risk not only to the United States, but also to its European allies. But he has not even made an effort to know, understand, and consult with his European friends. He has also given himself the responsibility of distinguishing what is right and wrong for Europe. Moreover, recent developments have caused the greatest damage to the presence and legitimacy of the United Nations. The responsibility and authority of the United Nations to negotiate and mediate to stop wars, to hold Security Council meetings, and to make meaningful interventions are disappearing. This helplessness of the United Nations may be a success for powerful countries like the United States and Russia, but it is certainly a tragedy for countries that are outside the power game. Therefore, communities and countries that are opposed to any war should unite and restore the role of the United Nations.