Statement of the ILPS
Hands Off Iran! End US Imperialist and Zionist Terror Threatening World War!
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle condemns the blatant attack of the US on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities. Once again, the US has fully exposed itself as the most dangerous imperialist power in the world still, and the number one threat to peace in West Asia and the world. Iran, as of June 23rd, has attacked US bases in Qatar in their right to defense of their national sovereignty and against bloodthirsty US-Zionist aggression. Iran state media has just stated that a ceasefire has been achieved through their successful attack on the US base at Qatar. However, this US-Zionist war of aggression against Iran and all of West Asia is not over and the peoples’ resistance around the world to this war is needed more than ever.
Even after arming and giving full political support to the Zionist entity of “Israel” in its war of aggression against Iran for the past few weeks, the US made the decision to enter the war and bomb three of Iran’s nuclear facilities along with Trump threatening regime change, escalating the war to potentially catastrophic levels with Iran having no resort but to strike back against these imperialist attacks. These acts of imperialist and Zionist aggression was not to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, something Iran has always said it has no intention to do. It is instead a provocative strike against the US’s primary rival state in West Asia, one that has checked US oil and gas monopolies and given wide support and solidarity to the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and the whole region via the Axis of Resistance.
In relation to challenging the US’s oil and gas monopolies, the Parliament of Iran has passed to close the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off 20% of the world’s oil trade in its counter-offensive to the US. The final decision still lays with the Supreme National Security Council, but if made, this decision will send riptides through the world economy: oil prices will skyrocket, system-wide inflation will reverberate, and regional actors such as China and Russia will have to act, especially China due to its dependence on Iran’s oil — around 1.8m barrels a day. These superpowers and the EU have taken note: both Putin and the EU’s foreign ministers have met with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in recent days, who noted Russia’s strategic partnership treaty with Iran that was signed in January and the European powers failure to condemn Israel. The US is also calling on China to intervene to stop the Strait from being closed despite their imperialist aggression causing this potential crisis.
The US is repeating its same pretext that it used when it lied to the world about Iraq’s plans to develop nuclear weapons. This was also done to enact a brutal invasion and military occupation of Iraq, another state that at the time stood in the way of US dominance over West Asia. The violence that devastated the Iraqi people and destabilized its political leadership into warring proxy factions is a warning to the world of what happens when the US attacks a country asserting its independence and sovereignty.
But unlike in 2003, the US finds itself in a multi-polar world where countries like Iran have the ability to economically and militarily weather attacks by the US imperialists. Alliances in the region are becoming increasingly cemented, with Iran and Axis of Resistance on one side and the US, the Zionist entity, the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria on the other, with the latter four issuing a condemnation of Iran’s strike on “Qatari territory”. With other US multi-polar rivals – Russia and China — also in the US’s crosshairs, the war on Iran has the possibility of plunging the world into a US-led world war.
The people of the world stand united against the US-Zionist aggression on Iran just as it has stood against the US-Zionist genocide of Palestine for the past nearly 21 months. The League stands in full solidarity with Iran and its people as it asserts its independence and justified self-defense against US imperialism. The working peoples and liberation struggles of the world fight arm in arm with all independent states confronting imperialist intervention. Now is the time to build broad alliances among the people and with all forces standing for just peace and against imperialist aggression and struggle militantly to direct all of our blows against US imperialism, the number one enemy of the world today!
Signed,
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
Source : https://peoplesstruggle.org/en/hands-off-iran-end-us-imperialist-and-zionist-terror-threatening-world-war/
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