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Iran War: US Soldiers Are Flooding Hotlines Trying to Get Out

U.S. Army veteran and Center on Conscience and War Executive Director Mike Prysner discusses with Rania Khalek the growing resistance to a war with Iran inside the U.S. military.

As Washington edges toward a possible ground invasion, active-duty troops and their families are flooding the group’s hotline seeking ways to avoid deployment.

Prysner explains the legal options for soldiers who refuse to fight, and what the spike in calls reveals about morale, public opinion, and the limits of U.S. war-making power.

As the threat of a ground war with Iran looms, @MikePrysner of @CCW4COs says phones are “ringing off the hook” with US troops seeking legal ways to refuse deployment.

“In 20 years… I’ve never talked to as many [anti-war] people as I’m meeting now.”

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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