Statement of the 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 invastion 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 chokehold 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 sulphur 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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