Anti-US protesters funded by pro-China tycoon mobilize as first bombs fall on Iran

In the acheronian of the night, 10 minutes earlier President Donald Trump adjacent announced that the U.S. and Israel had attacked Iran, a web of U.S. nonprofits aligned with China, Russia and Tehran activated ft soldiers to deed America's streets.

Groups funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based, American-born tech tycoon, which regularly parrot messaging from America's adversaries, swung into enactment adjacent arsenic the archetypal bombs were dropping. The astir instantaneous effect was the latest salvo successful an accusation warfare connected the U.S., with ft soldiers called upon to converge successful protests and echo anti-U.S. talking points.

At 2:34 a.m. ET, the ANSWER Coalition, a nonprofit task whose leaders self-describe arsenic Marxist and communist, announced: "EMERGENCY NATIONWIDE DAY OF ACTION TODAY, SAT. FEB 28 — STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN!"

Map of US strikes connected Iran. (Fox News)

It announced its network: groups that person agelong supported the authorities successful Iran, including the National Iranian American Council, 50501, American Muslims for Palestine, the People’s Forum, Palestinian Youth Movement, and CodePink. The organizations haven't responded to requests for comment. Singham did not respond to a petition for comment.

The web acceptable the connection for their anti-U.S. messaging, calling the warfare an "unprovoked, amerciable bombing of Iran." It adjacent acceptable up a website domain for the coordinated actions: http://ANSWERCoalition.org.

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Ten minutes later, astatine 2:44 a.m., Trump posted a video, confirming the onslaught connected Iran, telling the world: "A abbreviated clip ago, the United States subject began large combat operations successful Iran.

Eight minutes later, astatine 2:52 a.m., the People’s Forum — a New York-based activistic hub funded by Singham arsenic an "incubator" for socialist groups — issued an "emergency" telephone to enactment for a protestation successful Times Square.

"🚨 EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION IN NYC TO STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN: TODAY, 2/28 astatine 2PM successful Times Square," the People's Forum announced.

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The ANSWER Coalition runs operations retired of the People's Forum office successful midtown Manhattan. The People’s Forum connection mirrored the messaging successful a caller video released overnight earlier the attacks by the Chinese Communist Party, framing the U.S. arsenic an imperial and assemblage power. The People's Forum said:

"This warfare serves nary 1 but a tiny elite and lipid executives and is simply a continuation of much than 2 years of genocide successful Palestine and US-Israeli aggressions passim the region," The People's Forum said successful a statement.

The aforesaid web has mobilized rapidly successful past high-profile nationalist information incidents. It antecedently rallied successful enactment of Nicolás Maduro aft U.S. authorities arrested him and his wife, Sylvia Flores, connected Jan. 3 for alleged engagement successful narcoterrorism.

Earlier this month, erstwhile the State Department sent a study to the U.S. Congress raising concerns astir this network, it stated, "Organizations similar Code Pink and the People’s Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the unit of Marxist regimes, and tally screen for narco-terrorists similar Maduro while enjoying an influx of currency from a donor web with connections to the Chinese Communist Party."

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A idiosyncratic holds an representation of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arsenic Iranian demonstrators protestation against the U.S.-Israeli strikes, successful Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28, 2026.  (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)

Last summer, the aforesaid conjugation — including the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink — rallied extracurricular the White House nether the banner "Hands Off Iran." That protestation was coordinated alongside the National Iranian American Council and amplified by BreakThrough News, which broadcast images of children holding anti-war signs astatine the White House fence.

Through the nighttime of the associated U.S.-Israel onslaught connected Iran, tract marshals instantly readied printed signage, standardized messaging and coordinated media amplification, according to radical acquainted with the organizations. They linked anti-Israel activism, anti-ICE protests and anti-Trump messaging into a azygous communicative model opposing what organizers telephone the U.S. "empire." Their messages aligned with the messages of pro-regime protests successful Iran.

By 4:31 a.m., BreakThrough News, a task of BreakThrough BT Media, a nonprofit funded by Singham, promoted the time of "emergency" protests arsenic "BREAKING" news. It shares the aforesaid code arsenic the People's Forum, and its editor-in-chief, Ben Becker, is the lad of Brian Becker, a co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition.

Members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition get minutes earlier the commencement of a protestation to enactment the authorities moving the Islamic Republic of Iran. (Asra Nomani/Fox News Digital)

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At 7:19 a.m., BreakThrough News circulated a video of an alleged U.S. onslaught connected a school, which the network's organizations repeated and amplified to represent the U.S. arsenic an unbridled aggressor. The U.S. hasn't commented yet connected that alleged strike.

By 9:09 am., China's Foreign Ministry called for an extremity to the strikes, its connection aligning with the rhetoric of the U.S. protestation infrastructure, calling for the defence of Iran's "sovereignty" and "territorial integrity."

By then, arsenic galore Americans were conscionable awakening to the news, the protestation infrastructure was afloat engaged with societal media graphics circulating, section chapters alerted and Times Square positioned erstwhile again arsenic a signifier for the accelerated mobilization of ft soldiers who would person their images broadcast astir the satellite with the predictable connection of Americans mobilizing a "grassroots" run against the U.S. warfare connected Iran.

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At 11 a.m., the protests had dispersed to 16 hubs for the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation: Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Akron, Cincinnati and Cleveland successful Ohio; Asheville and Charlotte successful North Carolina; Boston, Burlington, Vt.; San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Davis and Los Angeles successful California, Providence, R.I; Tucson, Ariz. and Eugene, Ore.

A web of pro-regime organizations successful Chicago released their ain property release, parroting the messaging against "the U.S. empire."

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