An 80-year-old nonprofit that advises conscientious objectors says its phone is "ringing off the hook"as American service members who object to the US-and-Israel-initiated war on Iran are seeking guidance on how to avoid being a part of it. Ominously,the group's executive director says the breadth of force mobilization is much like the run-up to the ground invasion of Iraq.

"Phone has been ringing off the hook," wrote Center on Conscience & War executive director Mike Prysner on X."A LOT more units have just been activated for deployment than the public knows about."Founded in 1940, the Center on Conscience and War provides guidance to military service members pursuing a conscientious objector (CO) status or a discharge. The group also opposes military conscription.

Service members: If you agree Trump’s war on Iran is wrong, you don’t have to participate. We can help you explore your options. Call 1-800-379-2679pic.twitter.com/LOAA7k9ElX

In a post on the group's account, the Centersaidit received a call from someone who is on deployment orders and who"reports widespread opposition to Iran War within their unit...In particular, they conveyed disgust at the US massacre of the girls’ school as well as the attack on the Iranian frigate in international waters."

The US military is reportedly responsible forkilling some 150 schoolgirlsin Minab, Iran during the opening of the war. In another incident, a US Navy submarine torpedoed an Iranian ship that was departing a largely ceremonial naval event in India that involved 18 countries. Compounding the controversy over sinking alightly-armedvessel 2,000 miles from the war theater, the Americans apparently left surviving sailors to drown in aviolation of the Geneva Convention-- that is, a war crime. At least 87 died.

Under US military policy,CO status is defined as “a firm, fixed, and sincereobjection to participation in war in any formor the bearing of arms, by reason of religious training and/or belief.”That would seemingly exclude service members who stand ready to defend America, but who view the war on Iran as an amoral enterprise being carried out solely to advance Israel's agenda in the region.

I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom the were going “boots on the ground” tonight.pic.twitter.com/3OCupSfp9Q

However, the group helps service members pursue other avenues for opting out of the latest US regime-change war in the Middle East. For example, in a Friday night post, the Center saidservice members who are in their first year in any branch "can *easily* get outjust by reporting 'failure to adapt'...The evidence bar is low."

Prysner, who took on the executive director role on March 1, joined the US Army shortly before 9/11, and was part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. After discharging, he became an activist against the war. He saidwhat he's hearing from callers indicates a major mobilizationon par with the final weeks before the catastrophic invasion of Iraq:

I was part of the buildup to invasion of Iraq. What I’ve heard today from troops & families is so reminiscent of Feb-Mar ‘03. Doesn’t prove the US is invading, but that they are definitely preparing to. Will they? Probably weighing many factors… and our resistance is one of them

Source: ZeroHedge News