ONE: The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is a massive, ongoing war crime on the part of the U.S./Israel, with the potential to develop into something even more terrible, beyond its current horrific dimensions.

Yet, every bourgeois (capitalist-imperialist) politician in this country and virtually every commentator makes a point of emphasizing what a terrible force the ruling regime in Iran is. Some important points of emphasis:

Yes, this Iranian regime of brutally oppressive Islamic fundamentalist tyrants is truly terrible. But—contrary to what is voiced, in rote repetition, by bourgeois politicians, of both ruling class political parties (Democrat as well as Republican), and other representatives of U.S. imperialism—this Iranian regime is not the most terrible terrorist force in the Middle East (or the whole world, as Trump has claimed). That “distinction,” with regard to the Middle East, clearly belongs to Israel—which is a genocidal terrorist state that has carried out, and continues to carry out, atrocities on a scale well beyond that of the Iranian regime. (And, in terms of the world as a whole, the most destructive, and yes, terroristic, force clearly is the USA—not only in the form of the current fascist regime but overall and for some time.)

The fact that, in this war against Iran, the Trump regime/the U.S. is fully and forcefully aligned with the genocidal terrorist state of Israel is yet another profound exposure of the nature of this whole system. And the fact that no prominent Democratic Party politician has called things out in these essential terms—including in the course of their “pious doubts and petty amendments” regarding how the Trump regime has gone about conducting this war: this is yet another telling exposure of the actual nature and role of the Democratic Party as an instrument of the monstrous system of U.S. capitalism-imperialism.

TWO: For more than four decades, since the revolutionary uprising of the Iranian people was hijacked by reactionary Islamic fundamentalist forces in 1979 (who, in consolidating their murderous regime, viciously suppressed progressive and especially revolutionary communist forces), we have been very clear about, and have consistently exposed, the highly oppressive nature of this regime in Iran, and have supported mass resistance against it—at the same time as we supported the revolutionary communists in Iran who have been working consistently for the overthrow of this regime, and have faced the most terrible torture and slaughter at the hands of the regime, again going back more than four decades.

But we have never allowed the highly oppressive reactionary nature of the Islamic regime to obscure the fact that the whole history and present role of U.S. imperialism in relation to Iran has been in fundamental opposition to the basic interests of the Iranian people, and has been responsible for horrendous suffering inflicted upon them. A major factor in enabling the rise to power of the reactionary Islamic regime in Iran was the role of U.S. imperialism in overthrowing the popular (and not Islamic fundamentalist) Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953, installing in its place the bloody regime of the Shah and fully backing that regime of the Shah for decades (a regime which, along with its ongoing brutal repression and torture, not incidentally also slaughtered thousands of Iranians who rose up against it, in the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s). Nothing good can come from the actions of the U.S., along with Israel—and those, like the son of the Shah, who act as agents of those bloodthirsty forces.

The overthrow of the reactionary Islamic regime in Iran, and the possibility of something truly positive emerging from this, can only be realized through a genuinely revolutionary uprising of the masses of Iranian people, conscious of the actual nature of and resolutely opposing not only the oppressive Islamic regime but all oppressive and reactionary forces in the region and the world, especially Israel and the even more powerful and destructive force behind it, U.S. imperialism.

THREE: It is crucial that protest against this massive war crime, committed by the U.S. and Israel, be manifested, as powerfully as possible, in a timely way—and every political force needs to be evaluated in terms of where it stands, and what it does, in regard to this. 

And it is crucial that people look seriously into the deeper problem in the system that is driving this madness, and the revolutionary solution to bring about a radically different and far better world.

Stop the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran!

In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!

This Whole System Is Rotten and Illegitimate—We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System!