AND Editorial – United States orders Netanyahu to attack Iran

We share an unofficial translation of the latest editorial by A Nova Democracia.

Yankee imperialism ordered the Zionist attack on Iran. This is what the monopolistic news agencies of the imperialist countries and their lackey branches in the Third World are trying to cover up. The Zionist entity Israel is forced to fulfill with the orders of its master in order to continue to obtain its support in the genocide of the Palestinian people. The Nazi-Zionist Netanyahu made a point of saying that the US – and it is the US, really – supports him, but he does not have the courage to tell the whole truth: that attacking Iran was an order from the US. The main contradiction in the so-called Greater Middle East is between Yankee imperialism and its servants such as Israel and lackey governments in that region, on the one hand, and, on the other, the oppressed nations and peoples of that region: Arabs, Persians, Turks, Kurds and others.

The Nazi-Zionist entity’s bombings of Iran since June 13, murdering high-ranking officials of the regime – such as the head of the “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps”, the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, the top nuclear physicist and other high-ranking military officers and nuclear scientists – were a surreptitious and surprise attack, when an agreement between the US and Iran was about to be achieved. They also represent an illegal and sordid aggression against the Iranian nation and people, even under the laws of current international treaties. The Islamic regime of the ayatollahs, even though it constitutes a theocratic State that maintains a system of semi-colonial/semi-feudal exploitation of bureaucratic capitalism and is subject to the sphere of influence of Russian imperialism in the inter-imperialist conflict, is forced, in order to survive, to defend the independence and sovereignty of the Iranian nation against Yankee domination in the region and, in fact, needs to support the cause of Palestinian national liberation and that of other Arab countries, in the search for legitimacy to expand its ideological influence and to supplant the weight of the Zionist entity there, either by isolating it or by destroying it. However, the real interests at stake for the Iranian regime are, first and foremost, those of the local ruling classes of the big bureaucratic-comprador bourgeoisie and big landlords tied to the interests of the Russian imperialists.

However, the immediate objective of both Zionism and the Yankees is to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program, mainly to prevent the development of nuclear warheads, to ensure the maintenance of the interests of those in the region, both as a source of oil and gas and of positioning and “geopolitical” rule in the world inter-imperialist contend.

The Zionists oppose the Iranian nuclear program because it would mean breaking the relative strategic superiority in terms of war resources that they have enjoyed in the region, thanks to their instrumentalization and financing by the United States – since the Zionist entity possesses nuclear warheads supplied, by the way, by the Yankees and in an undeclared manner. Therefore, Iran’s nuclear development, in general and in particular of atomic weapons, would allow Iranian defensive expansionism to impose its interests, acting on the offensive against the colonial and expansionist project of the Zionist entity. This would mean, for Israel, the inauguration of a new period, in which the beginning of its total and complete defeat – marked by the brilliant counteroffensive of the Palestinian National Resistance on October 7, 2023 – would be clear. One of the reasons why the Pentagon and its henchman, Netanyahu, are attacking these targets now is the following: it is said that the Iranian nuclear program would take months to develop nuclear warheads; therefore, the current campaign of aggression seeks, at the very least, to cause material damage (destruction of plants and all types of logistics related to the nuclear project) and specialized human material (military and technical chain of command) that will delay the fulfilling of the project by years. Israel, although it has air superiority, given the support it has from the US, both offensively and defensively in relation to Iran, and therefore tends to suffer less damage in the immediate future, knows that its plan cannot be effective, since Iran’s main nuclear enrichment structures are obviously located in underground positions, inside mountains, composed of large and very solid constructions, since, from the beginning, it was already preparing to withstand air attacks with the most developed means of war of the Yankees, and no bomb or missile in the possession of the Zionist entity is capable of causing significant damage to these structures. Netanyahu, “the little Satan”, or Satanyahu, and the Zionist entity he currently presides over, are embarking on an aggression and are betting on its escalation, seeking to force “the great Satan” (Yankee imperialism) to directly enter the campaign against Iran, sensing the danger of a very imminent end, in a few decades, of his project of colonial plunder and of his own Zionist entity.

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Yankee imperialism, beset by very acute contradictions throughout the world that require maximum political concentration and war resources to resolve them in the EU/Ukraine and in Asia/Taiwan, is seeking to use this situation to blackmail Iran into returning to the negotiating table on the nuclear project. In this sense, it is no coincidence that the first bombings occurred 9 days after the head of the Iranian regime, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave a harsh response to US interference in the nuclear program, saying that “they [US] cannot do anything about this issue [of the Iranian nuclear program].” Trump and the Pentagon ordered the attack not because they really want to open a new war front against Iran now to replace the regime through an invasion (since such a blaze would be unlikely not to result in reactions from other powers in an inevitable escalation to a new world war, which is not in the interest of any of the imperialist forces at the moment), but because they also need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear warheads and they are betting that the Iranian regime will not escalate the conflict. This is the basis for Trump’s ambiguous statements about the situation in the Middle East. Calculations, however, that could be a serious mistake, because by cornering and humiliating a nation and its people, they could force their government, whatever it may be, to “pay the price”: times are no longer the same as in previous decades.

In this regard, there is a struggle and collusion between Yankee imperialism, with its watchdog Israel, and other NATO powers over how to handle the current aggression against Iran: Yankee imperialism is in favor of using the current situation to pressure and return to an agreement that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear arsenal, either by completely destroying its project or by imposing limitations that do not allow Iran to advance quickly in concluding the chain of procedures (substantial quantity of uranium enrichment and large-scale production of different nuclear devices), thereby gaining time to immediately focus on the main axis of its inter-imperialist disputes (in Asia, against China) and the Russia-Europe confrontation. The Zionist entity, and particularly Satanyahu, is taking advantage of the Yankee need to squeeze Iran, not only with the Yankee objective of forcing it to negotiate what is acceptable to the empire, but also to conduct attacks in a disproportionate manner, risking exceeding the limits of Yankee calculations, thus creating a pressure force to bargain with its Yankee master so that he does not abandon it in its genocidal policy towards the Palestinian issue. However, such a dangerous game risks setting the entire region on fire.

However, it is not difficult to understand that, in this extreme situation in which Netanyahu finds himself, it is clear that he is provoking such a situation to take advantage of his Nazi delusions of exterminating the Palestinian people, and thus create a scenario in which Yankee imperialism finds itself forced to openly assume the position of direct aggressor of Iran, launching its last generation war resources to completely dismantle the Iranian nuclear program, even without necessarily subverting the regime, and leaving Israel in an extremely advantageous position to carry out its “final solution” to the Palestinian question. The Zionist entity and its child-killing strategists know that their ballistic missiles, although they will cause severe damage to the plants they are bombing at full capacity, are powerless against the main ultracentrifuge uranium enrichment plant, protected by the dense Iranian mountains, and they calculate that the only viable means of war capable of damaging such a structure is a US asset, such as the GBU57 bombs, which weigh more than 15 tons, and whose only plane capable of launching it is the B2, also a US asset.

It is possible that in such a calculation Netanyahu seeks to increase his attacks to a proportion that provokes a reaction from Iran that, being considered a “disproportionate escalation”, forces the Pentagon to step forward by openly assuming its aggression, and with the justification for the most destructive attacks on Iran and its regime. This perception seems to be that of the Iranian president when he declared that his country does not want to escalate the conflict, but that it will respond to each attack suffered; The Iranian regime, knowing that the essential core of its nuclear program cannot be destroyed by the bombings so far, is more interested in condemning it directly in public opinion and giving greater moral, political, military and logistical encouragement to the anti-imperialist guerrilla groups that it influences in the different Arab countries of the region, so that they can deepen the war of attrition against the Zionist entity, and thus gain the time it needs to acquire nuclear weapons, either by establishing a new agreement that will allow it to accumulate the means to culminate the project in the production of warheads, or by taking advantage of the political situation created to continue the project in defiance of the agreements and the bombings in order to quickly conclude this program and present itself, in fact and before the world, with the proof of the tests, that it has the atomic bomb and will use it against whoever dares to attack the country.

In any case, the conclusion among all bourgeois analysts is unanimous that the so-called “hard line” – those groups in the Iranian regime that oppose negotiations with the Yankees and that defend the development and production of nuclear warheads – emerged strengthened from these events, since, in fact, they prove that the only guarantee of relative lasting peace for the oppressed Iranian nation is the possession of atomic weapons achieved despite the agreements sealed with the USA.

Anti-imperialists, revolutionaries and democrats around the world must condemn every ongoing attempt by US imperialism and the Nazi-Zionist entity to intervene in Iranian sovereignty, as well as decisively defend and support Iranian self-defense as a transitional part of the anti-Yankee resistance front in the Middle East.

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The situation is such that the inevitable outcome of events will be the generalization and formation of a wave of anti-imperialist wars in the Middle East, as well as the increase in protests and actions by armed or unarmed masses in the imperialist countries and in other countries oppressed by imperialism around the world, against the childmurderer and genocidal Nazi-Zionist machine and the imperialist war. As Chairman Mao said, Yankee imperialism, in order to guarantee its world hegemony over the oppressed nations and its competitors, is forced to launch aggressions against everyone, and all it does is encourage the creation of a united international anti-imperialist front, which will end up being coordinated in order to encircle and annihilate it.

Imperialism, in its unprecedented general crisis of decomposition and with acute symptoms of its terminal state, can only point to a dark and malignant destiny and threaten to drag the entire world into it, the culmination of which would be the third imperialist world war. At the present time, we are witnessing the outcome of decisive conflicts that have been prepared and promised for decades, which involve the most sensitive interests of the major powers and superpowers and which are increasingly showing themselves to be more inflexible. The imperialists act as the incendiaries of the world war. Thus, we, the peoples of the world, are called upon to ward off this war: to strike at imperialism everywhere, from within, from below and from behind, in order to defeat it and, under the leadership of the new humanity, the proletariat, to inaugurate a new world throughout the Earth.

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The assassination of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Nambala Keshava Rao (Comrade Basavaraj), has caused outrage among all anti-imperialists around the world, and particularly in our country, where the struggle of the Indian people under the leadership of that Party is a source of great inspiration for true revolutionaries. The attitude of the fascist Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, of immediately going on television to announce that the CPI (Maoist) will be defeated in 365 days – a pathetic scene that has been repeated many times, with different terms and characters – only proves that the Indian Revolution is the center of the government’s concerns and even of imperialist interests in Asia. As Chairman Mao said, “If the enemy attacks us, it is because we are on the right path, and if he attacks us ferociously, it is because we are achieving our objectives.”

Furthermore, Modi knows very well that it is impossible – without any exaggeration – to defeat the Indian Revolution, its people’s war and the CPI (Maoist) by military action alone; he knows that his objective would only be possible if he managed to foment capitulation within the revolutionary ranks, particularly in the organization leading the revolution, and even then, he would only be able to delay the process. This is his goal: that is why he went on television, that is why Operation “Kagaar” means “The End”. It is, above all, an ideological confrontation. But in this field, the revolutionaries are superior. If they persevere in their cause with unshakable conviction, the Indian Revolution, the people’s war in India, the revolutionary mass organizations and their leadership, the CPI (Maoist), cannot be defeated.

To the anti-imperialists, democratic internationalists and revolutionaries of the whole world, it is urgent to shout support for the revolutionary struggle in India, for the CPI (Maoist), for the revolutionary mass organizations and to celebrate the life of the great communist leader Nambala Keshava Rao or Comrade Basavaraj.

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