Iran Will Not Be Defeated! Destroy The US War Machine! — ILPS
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle continues to strongly condemn the ongoing war of aggression by US imperialism and the Zionist entity against Iran and continues to uphold Iran’s steadfast resistance against it.
Since February 28th, the United States and “Israel” have committed the following atrocities against the Iranian people and others in West Asia:
- Launching strikes in Tehran, Qom, Khorammabad, Esfahan, Tabriz, Kermanshah, Ilam, Lorestan, Karaj, Zahedan, Chabahar, and other localities in Iran, murdering over 1,200 people;
- A joint ‘decapitation strike’ that killed over 40 top officials, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of the sovereign state of Iran and for Shia Muslims around the world;
- Killing at least 175 schoolgirls in the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, which since has been determined to be a bombing solely by United States;
- Killing at least 217 people through airstrikes and a ground invasion into Lebanon which “Israel” has since admitted to have planned to provoke regardless of Hezbollah’s strike of resistance;
- Destruction of civilian infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, airports, energy plants, oil depots, desalination plants, scientific research centers, and more that has resulted in toxic acid rain impacting the health of millions; and
- Destroying a reported 43 warships, including an Iranian warship that was stationed near the waters of Sri Lanka.
This series of events follow the largest military build up in West Asia since 2003 prior to the invasion of Iraq, and following the United States’ recent invasion of Venezuela and subsequent kidnapping of President Maduro and First Combatant Flores. Under the current fascist Trump regime, the United States has emphasized shock and awe tactics and classic colonial methods of overthrowing sovereign countries without any pretense whatsoever, directly stating their want to plunder resources such as oil and shuffling through confusing and inconsistent justifications after the fact. As the second series of strikes against Iran since June, this bombardment has no clear end, as Trump has explicitly stated that there will be “no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender.” In addition, the Zionist entity has become even more bloodthirsty, claiming that their next target will be Turkey in their “Greater Israel” project.
This fascist drive to war has been paralleled in the rise of their religious fervor, namely with US Secretary of War Hegseth framing the plans of aggression as a ‘crusade’ to leading military commanders, and the fundamentally theocratic nature of the Zionist project in its attempt to ‘Judaize’ all of Palestine and many other parts of West Asia. This alliance is portraying a facade of Zionist-Christian unity against Shia Islam with the goal to widen the schism between Shia and Sunni Muslims, a goal that seems so far to have failed as Muslims of many different religious backgrounds take to the streets denouncing the US-Zionist fascist offensive.
However, the morale of the Iranian people has only grown greater at the face of such short-sighted attacks, repelling the US-Zionist aggression while causing significant destruction to “Israel” and US bases in the Gulf States in an operation named “True Promise 4”. Iran has purportedly killed at least 7 American troops with some estimating a much higher number, grounded dozens of aircraft, wiped out anti-missile sensors, and is rapidly depleting US and “Israeli” air defenses. The Axis of Resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq has been invigorated to continue their resistance against the US-Zionist alliance and their attempts at expanding their occupation. In South Lebanon, “Israel” has resorted to its genocidal tactics of indiscriminate bombings, but has failed to gain territory on the ground. Yet, the Lebanese resistance has proven capable of halting the advancing “Israeli” troops through destroying at least six tanks and successfully forcing multiple combat helicopters to retreat in a united operation by Hezbollah forces and the armed community itself.
The larger population of the Arab and Muslim world has mobilized en masse to back Iran’s resistance against this war of aggression, especially since the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, occupying and burning down US embassies and consulates in their countries. The international community by-and-large since the launching of the war, which comes on the heels of the third year of US-Zionist genocide in Gaza, stands behind Iran.
Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, which facilitates 20% of the world’s oil exports and is central to the system of petrodollar recycling that holds up the hegemony of the US dollar, inflicting the US puppet states in the Gulf with the same choke hold that the United States currently is imposing on Venezuela and Cuba. The actions of the US and Zionists, and their stated intentions of obliterating the Islamic Republic of Iran, have taken away any chance of a diplomatic end to this war that now has drastic regional and global implications for the global economy.
Aside from 20% of the world’s oil exports being facilitated through the Strait, which are central to petrochemical production and all production in general, it also carries 45% of the global supply of ammonia and urea needed for fertilizer, 24% of the world’s sulfur to make nickel refining and copper processing possible, 18% of pellet exports necessary for steel manufacturing, and 10% of aluminum exports among many other raw materials that are transported across the Strait. Of particular importance to the Gulf states, who are 90% dependent on foodstuff imports for domestic consumption, 70% of these imports are imported through the Strait of Hormuz.
The severely limited supply of oil and other commodities will result in skyrocketing oil prices, leading to a domino effect of skyrocketing commodity prices in general due to factory and farming stoppages, massive energy crises in countries dependent on oil through the Strait such as Pakistan and India, and lines being firmly drawn between those aiding US imperialism and those staunchly opposed to its brutish machinations if they have not been already. Migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia displaced due to imperialist plunder and lack of national industries in their home countries and forced to work in the Gulf States, and have been refused repatriation from their home countries due to the ruling class’s interests in maintaining their workers abroad to continue profiting off foreign labor contracts and high taxes on remittances. European powers have been drawn in to attack, or at least posture, so as to appease the United States. This includes deployments to countries such as Cyprus where the NATO troops of the US, UK, France, and Greece are stationed at British bases at the edge of West Asia along with the rumblings of tactical nuclear warheads being deployed. The global scope of the conflict threatens to prompt Russia and China to enter in some capacity with both already sending intelligence to Iran amidst this war.
With the globe closer to the brink of world war than ever since the 1940s, peoples’ struggles across the world rage on, determined to topple imperialism and all reaction, to turn imperialist wars into wars of liberation wherever possible.
The League calls on its member organizations, country chapters, regions, and all mass movements across the world to continue to stand with Iran’s resistance against this war of aggression by US imperialism, the Zionist entity, and the collaboration from the Gulf states. The worsening conditions in these coming days due to the war are more reason to expose imperialism as the root cause of such conditions, moreso because the United States and its allies will intentionally obscure their role and hide the original hubris they had in launching this war. As the US stretches itself thin across the world, the people must and will continue to express their solidarity with the people of Iran while they arouse, organize, and mobilize the greatest amount of the masses in their countries to confront US imperialism and advance forward their own national liberation struggles and the defense of their countries’ sovereignty.
Long live international solidarity!
End US Aggression against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and the world!
Uphold the People’s Resistance to Imperialism!
Fight for Land, Liberation, and Sovereignty!
Signed,
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
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