He claimed that Starmer was “incapable of standing up to Donald Trump” and urged the government to “immediately withdraw permission for the US to use UK bases.”
Polanski said the government needed to focus on “keeping people safe” and argued that Starmer “being totally subservient to Donald Trump doesn’t do that”.
He made similar comments in an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, stating: “We have seen an illegal and unprovoked attack.”
Quoting the BBC’s international editor, Jeremy Bowen, he described the attacks on Iran as “a war of choice.”
The rally attended by the Green deputy featured the flag of the brutal Islamic Republic (Photo: Facebook)[Missing Credit]
Polanski said: “We’ve got a defence secretary saying that diplomacy is in the long run what we need, but he won’t condemn Donald Trump when he attacks a country and assassinates its leader.”
He described the campaign against Iran as “the law of the jungle” and “an end to international law.”
On Saturday, as news of the air strikes by Israel and the US broke, Polanski wrote on social media: "This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.
"The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.
"There is only one nuclear armed state in the Middle East. It is Israel."
The 43-year-old London Assembly member faced calls over the weekend to sack his deputy after he attended a controversial protest which reportedly saw the US flag burnt.
Mothin Ali attended a rally in central London protesting against the strikes on Iran, where he stood amid flags of the Islamic Republic.
Ali was filmed standing amid regime flags (Photo: X)[Missing Credit]
Demonstrators allegedly chanted “Death to Israel”, “Death to the IDF” and “Khamenei you make us proud!” and an American flag was stamped on and set alight, as was the pre-revolution Iranian lion and sun flag.
Commenting on Ali’s appearance at the rally, former security minister Tom Tugendhat accused the Green Party of standing “with those who murder young Iranians seeking a better life and freedom”.
The Conservative MP said: “The deputy leader stands with those who murder gay and lesbian men and women by hanging them from cranes. It comes to something when hatred of your own country leads you to side with such evil.”
In a post on X on Sunday, Ali said he was “proudly anti-war” and accused the US and Israel of a “deplorable” and “unilateral decision in the midst of negotiations to kill the Iranian leader, and opted for war”.
Green MP Ellie Chowns defended Ali on Monday, saying “Mothin is anti-war. He believes peace can only be achieved through peaceful means.”
She said that the Greens believe the actions of the US and Israeli governments against Iran were an “illegal war” and “not making the world a safer place.”
The Green Party has previously faced questions over Ali’s public statements prior to becoming deputy leader last year.
In a post on October 7, 2023, he wrote: “White supremacist european settler colonialism must end!!”
In a separate video filmed on October 7, Ali described Gaza as “the biggest concentration camp the world has ever seen”, adding: “People of the world, stay strong. Support Palestine, support the right of indigenous people to have freedom and to fight back against occupiers.”
Ali subsequently apologised for the “short-sightedness” of his comments.
