Kapranos wrote: “These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent. This makes us both nauseous and furious. Kind of typical though, isn’t it? To strut up and take what isn’t theirs with a vile arrogance.”
Last month, Israel and the U.S. launched joint strikes against Iran, killing the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, triggering retaliation from Tehran and setting off a broader regional conflict.
Franz Ferdinand (the band) have long been political.
In 2016, they released a track called “Demagogue” about the first U.S. presidential campaign by Donald Trump.