Protests against attack on Iran began before Trump even revealed military strikes were under way

Demostrators marching in NYC to opposed the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran.

President Trump posted a video message on social media at 2:44 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 28, announcing the U.S. and Israel had begun joint military strikes against Iran. But protesters were already mobilizing 10 minutes before Trump's announcement, according to an eye-opening report by Asra Nomani. 

And after Trump announced the strikes against Iran, a network of other groups began mobilizing to begin protesting the strikes. According to Nomani's report, which appeared on the website of Fox News, the groups are all funded by Neville Singham, a U.S.-born tech mogul who now lives in Shanghai, China. Singham for years has pushed Chinese propaganda, and funds groups in the U.S. to instigate opposition to U.S. government policy, making the opposition seem organic when they are anything but. 

The ANSWER Coalition, a self-described Marxist and communist group, sent its first email to mobilize protesters at 2:34 a.m. on Saturday, 10 minutes before Trump even announced the air campaign against Iran. In the minutes after Trump's revelation, a slew of other groups began sending messages to their rank and file members calling on them to hit the streets in protest.

As Nomani noted in her report, these were the same groups that quickly mobilized protests against he capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in early January. 

By the time the sun was up, demonstrators were marching in numerous U.S. cities, including in Washington, D.C., and New York City, carrying the Iranian flag and holding signs reading '"Hands Off Iran," in addition to other messages.

Watch video of protesters marching in NYC here. One protester even managed to already have a bikini top that was fashioned to look like the Iranian flag. She laid in the street, writhing around on her back before getting up to reveal an obscenity scrawled on the back of her jeans shorts.

And below, watch side-by-side videos that show the similarities between the manufactured protests against the capture of Maduro in early January and the protests against the attack against Iran over the weekend.