US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s attack on Iran was condemned as a “brutal, illegal, totally unjustified” war crime by Stop the War today after the US bombed nuclear sites in Iran, with Tehran warning of “everlasting consequences.”

The US planes and submarines bombed sites thought to be connected to Iran’s nuclear programme after hundreds of thousands attended demonstration for Palestine saying no to war in Iran in London on Saturday.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer chaired an emergency Cobra meeting today in response, admitting that there was a risk of the Middle East crisis spiralling beyond the region even while expressing support for the US.

A Stop the War Coalition statement said: “Trump’s attack on Iran is brutal, illegal and unjustified.

“Stop the War condemns it unequivocally and urges every possible mobilisation against British military or political support for the aggression.

“By taking this action, Trump has aligned the US with Israel’s war aim of removing all possible obstacles to completing its genocidal elimination of the Palestinian people.”

The attack “risks a considerable widening of the conflict in the Middle East” and it is “entirely hypocritical” of Sir Keir “to endorse these attacks while preaching the need for ‘de-escalation’ in the region,” the statement added.

The Tehran regime has insisted its nuclear programme is peaceful but Trump has rejected US intelligence suggesting that Iran is not making nuclear bombs.

He claimed that the attacks on Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz had left key Iranian nuclear sites “completely and fully obliterated.”

They followed a build-up of US military equipment, with B-2 stealth bombers — which are the only aircraft to carry a 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs reportedly used to target the underground facilities.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) general secretary Sophie Bolt condemned the US’s “illegal bombardment of Iran’s nuclear facilities,” adding: “Trump has lied about giving time for further diplomacy in his rush to start a devastating war on Iran.

“He has threatened further bombing of ‘many more targets’.

“The British government must condemn this US attack, which breaches the UN charter, international law, and the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

“It must categorically rule out any military involvement in military action against Iran. It must end its complicity with Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people.”

But Sir Keir insisted that Iran’s nuclear programme is a “grave threat” which the US military action would “alleviate.”

The bombing came days after he and Foreign Secretary David Lammy had sought to persuade Trump’s administration to hold off on joining Israel in striking Iran, arguing for de-escalation and a diplomatic process.

Asked on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg yesterday, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds would not say Britain supported the military action nor whether he believed the US strikes were legal.

But he added that it would be “naive” to think the risk of Iranian-backed terrorism in Britain will not increase as a result of the US and Israeli action.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, now an independent MP, said: “The illegal attacks on Iran by the United States are reckless beyond belief — and threaten the safety of humankind around the world.

“Diplomacy was possible. Instead, a catastrophic war has been ignited by the aggression of two nuclear states, Israel and the United States.

“Meanwhile, the genocide in Gaza continues unabated with the shameful military support of our own government.

“The last Labour government made the mistake of following the US into a devastating war. Human beings abroad paid the price.

“This Labour government needs to learn the lessons of the past, otherwise it will be remembered for the more dangerous world it has helped to create.”