This Saturday, February 28, Trump made good on his threat and together with Israel bombed Iran.
The attack has already cost the lives of several girls whose school was bombed; and it’s been confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top leader, has died after Israel’s bombardment.
For its part, Iran has responded with missiles against Israel, U.S. bases and airports in several countries in the area, although with a much lower destructive power than that achieved by the U.S. and Israeli armed forces in Iran, due by the qualitative military power difference between these two countries in relation to the Iranian Armed Forces.
What is the U.S. and Israel objective?
There are economic and political objectives. For a long time, the U.S. has been pressuring Iran with the excuse of nuclear weapons, with the obvious intention of regaining economic and political control, interrupted by the great Iranian revolution of 1979. On Israel’s side, the historic confrontation with Iran has to do with advancing strategic control of the Middle East through the «Greater Israel» policy.
The U.S., which emerged from the Second World War, as the only major nuclear power, has always had the policy of accepting that other countries, allies and non-allies, have nuclear weapons, as is the case of North Korea, Russia and China. That is why we say that the issue of Iran’s possible manufacture of nuclear weapons is an excuse for the U.S. to conceal the real economic and political reasons, for its attack on Iran.
The main economic objective has to do with regaining control of the oil lost with the 1979 revolution. A very important objective because Iran has the third largest oil reserves in the world, behind only Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.
The main political goal is for Iran to return to being, as it was up to1979, an ally of Israel, the U.S. enclave in the Middle East. That is a strategic goal of the U.S. to control the region, because Iran is the main country in the Middle East that’s an ally of Palestine, specially Hamas.
These historic objectives are now being sharpened in response to the enormous economic, political and social crisis in the United States. Trump is standing in the middle of that crisis. The mass movement response against his attacks on immigrants, health, education, with actions against the government as never seen before, have had institutional repercussions: rulings against him by the Supreme Court, electoral defeats, fall in popularity and even alienation from allies. Added to this is the Epstein scandal, which weakens him at his base. All in the first year of government.
This weakening of Trump, which even U.S. mass media reports, does not make him retreat but rather increase his attacks, as a desperate measure to overcome that crisis.
Thus, to confront the economic crisis, he reinforces the colonization process: Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, economic pressures on Latin American countries. A process that leads him to confront even his partners and allies through tariffs. Partners that, according to the Supreme Court’s resolution, range from Canada and Mexico, to China.
In relation to attacks or pressures by military means, he’s been carrying them out in countries with regimes, weakened by great mass movement opposition: Venezuela, Cuba, Iran. To confront the political and social crisis, while attacking Iran, he attempts to create a nationalist feeling of «defense of the homeland against a terrorist threat.»
This last objective is also held by Netanyahu, in the face of Israel’s political and economic crisis and the enormous questioning of his leadership.
The hated dictatorship of the ayatollahs and the imperialist attack.
In Iran, great national unity is needed to confront the imperialist attack. But that unity is impossible as long as that bloodthirsty dictatorship continues to exist, because it has already killed thousands of activists, workers, women, students, young people of 12 or 14 years old, who took to the streets to confront it.
Based on this reality, it is very likely that there are Iranians who think that imperialism can help them by ending this dictatorship. That illusion is completely false. Imperialism is not concerned about whether there is dictatorship or democracy, its privileged relationship in the region is with Saudi Arabia, which is a bloody dictatorship. The proof of that is Venezuela, where the Chavista regime still stands, at the service of the U.S.
Trump’s arguments for a democratic Iranian regime are all lies. What he wants is a regime and a
government under his direct control. He can achieve this by replacing the government with one he trusts, if possible, or by putting the existing regime under his control as he did in Venezuela. It is not yet clear what variant he wants to impose on Iran. What is not ruled out, is that another reason for their attack is to prevent the January revolutionary process from resurfacing with force, as the mobilizations of university students were indicating.
Ending this bloody dictatorship is a necessity, that is not the task of imperialism but of the Iranian workers and people.
Just as imperialism is not an option to end dictatorship, dictatorship is not useful to confront imperialism.
Iran cannot resist the attack on imperialism with its military strength alone, which is qualitatively inferior to that of the US and Israel. To do so, it would have to call for a great anti-imperialist struggle in the region and the armed resistance of its people. If the Iranian regime wanted to truly confront imperialism, it would release political prisoners and arm the population to resist all kinds of attacks. We don’t think it will do that. The regime of the ayatollahs will not arm the people to face Trump’s attack, because of fear that those weapons will turn against it. That is why it’s useless to defend Iran against imperialist attack.
Resume the revolutionary process to defeat imperialism.
In the face of Trump’s military attack, China and Russia have limited themselves to making statements against it. In Pakistan and Iraq there have been some actions against U.S. Embassies, which have been repressed. So far there has been no major anti-imperialist reaction from the Arab regimes.
The revolutionary forces that expressed themselves in January, are the only ones capable of defending
Iran.
Those forces that seem to be resurfacing with the student mobilizations, had the capacity to face terrible repression, to arm themselves and paralyze the main cities of the country. If this resurgence materializes, it will be possible to achieve a great anti-imperialist action that can have great repercussions in the region and the world.
Within this anti-imperialist action it will be necessary to advance in the creation of independent organizations, based on the organization of workers by workplace and neighborhoods as was done in the 1979 revolution. Military unity can be made with the regime to confront the imperialist attack, but to go to the bottom of that confrontation, it will be necessary to advance in the destruction of the murderous dictatorship of the ayatollahs which, for fear of popular hatred, does not serve to confront imperialism.
No to the U.S./Israel attack on Iran!
Global mobilizations in defense of Iran!
Impose the rupture of relations with the United States and Israel!
Long live the Iranian revolution!
IRC
03-01-2026
