Israel’s aggression against Iran, which started on 13 June with intensive air strikes and assassinations, continues. Same is the justification for the attack on Iraq was ‘Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction’, the justification for the attack on Iran is ‘Iran’s nuclear programme’.
Agencies are reporting that Trump has approved the US imperialism’s plan to attack Iran, but has not yet ordered the attack, giving Iran the ‘chance’ to ‘step back’ and ‘surrender’.
The truth is that the US has not only participated in the Israeli aggression against Iran from the very beginning, but has also directed and managed this aggression.
American imperialism has put into effect its strategic plan to redesign the Middle East with the genocidal attack of Israeli Zionism targeting Gaza, and after taking a step forward in Lebanon, with the support of the Saudis and Gulf Emirates and with the initiative of Turkey and Israel, it has realised regime change in Syria and targeted Iran, whose influence in the region has been limited by weakening its allies.
Israel, which cannot be doubted as an accursed aggressor, is a striking force of American imperialism, which aims to take the Middle East under its unconditional domination by neutralising and excluding its rivals, including border and regime changes in certain countries. It is not that it does not have its own special interests and aims, such as becoming the dominant regional power, and it even forces the USA to achieve these aims from time to time, but it harmonises its own with its strategic aims, approaches and plans and is used by the USA as a striking force.
Israel, which also produces weapons but receives unlimited arms, ammunition and space intelligence support from the USA, does not conceive of itself and its aggression without the USA to such an extent that it was able to start bombing Iran without any concern, even though it had a stock of missiles for a week and ten days.
This is evident in the statements and declarations of Trump, who has presented himself as the ‘commander-in-chief’ of the war. It was he who called on Iran to ‘surrender’, it was he who said that ‘the problem will be solved if Iran returns to the nuclear negotiations and signs the agreement as he said it would be signed’.
At the moment, American imperialism and Israeli Zionism are bombarding Iran with bombs and missiles and raining blood and cruelty from the air on the Iranian people, Persian, Azerbaijani and Kurdish. The son of the Shah, who was overthrown by the Iranian Revolution in 1979, has already declared his readiness to rule Iran in line with the interests and directives of American imperialism.
Today, when the bombs are killing the Iranian people, it is not the time to make speeches on the ‘reactionary and popular hostility of the Mullahs’ and justify the American-Israeli aggression. The Mullahs are undoubtedly reactionary, but the task of the day is to stop the brutal American-Israeli aggression.
We condemn the American-Israeli aggression against Iran. There is no doubt that the Iranian workers and people have the right to defend themselves and we call on the peoples of the Middle East and the world to struggle against imperialism and Zionism.
Coordinating Committee of the
International Conference of the Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)