Iran Deal Opposition Resembles Lead-Up to Iraq War - Anti-War Activist

© AP Photo / Majid Asgaripour, FileIn this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo obtained from the Iranian Mehr News Agency, Iranian army members prepare missiles to be launched, during a maneuver, in an undisclosed location in Iran
In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo obtained from the Iranian Mehr News Agency, Iranian army members prepare missiles to be launched, during a maneuver, in an undisclosed location in Iran - Sputnik International
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Co-founder of the Code Pink movement Media Benjamin claims that the opposition movement to the Iran nuclear agreement is reminiscent of the supporters of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The opposition movement to the Iran nuclear agreement is reminiscent of the supporters of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, co-founder of the Code Pink movement Media Benjamin told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"It feels like in the beginning of the Iraq war, when we [Code Pink] were against the Iraq war. It is a flashback to us," Benjamin said at a protest of an anti-Iran rally on Capitol Hill.

Describing the response her group is getting from the rally's attendees, Benjamin said, "They spit at you, they say we are idiots, that we are unpatriotic… You feel like you’re going to get hit."

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Code Pink said it supports the Iran nuclear agreement and protested outside a rally on Wednesday with more than 500 opponents of the deal.

Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz addressed the anti-Iran rally where they denounced the deal and called on the US Congress to oppose it.

"What I hear a lot of people saying is ‘bomb Iran’," Benjamin said of the rally attendees.

She added that the politicians addressing the crowd at the rally are using "a lot of hate speech."

In a White House press conference in late August, the White House characterized the Trump-Cruz protest as a pro-war rally. President Barack Obama has argued that the only alternative to the nuclear agreement with Iran is war.

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