Enough fire, enough blood in the Middle East

Let's say it straight away! We in no way support the authoritarian regime of the Iranian mullahs, and we do not defend their plans to acquire nuclear weapons. Moreover, the truth requires us to state that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while Israel is not. Iran is regularly monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), while Israel refuses to do so. Israel has between thirty and one hundred atomic bombs, while no one has proven that Iran has a single one.

Western countries are, moreover, much more lenient on the issue of the nuclear bomb with Pakistan or India or in paving the way for Japan to acquire the atomic bomb.

And if the pretext for today's Israeli attack on Iran is the acquisition of the bomb, how do we explain Israel's regular attacks on Lebanon or Syria?

As fighters for democracy, law, and peace, we stand alongside Iranian and Israeli workers, Iranian, Israeli, and Palestinian women in their quest for emancipation; and the youth of these countries in building a future of peace, social progress, and ecological justice.

We cannot bear the deaths of innocent people in Gaza, Tel Aviv, Tehran, or Kyiv. Better still, we are calling for the ridding of this world of capitalism and its wars of resource and territorial grabbing, its economic, commercial, and monetary wars, whose only foot soldiers and victims are workers and peoples, regardless of their nationality.

Lies, organized confusion, media and government imbroglios only serve to hide the reasons for the upheavals of a world that has become inflammable.

It is urgent to demand at the same time: a halt to uranium enrichment by Iran's leaders as well as the denuclearization of the entire region, an end to warlike hostilities, a halt to bombings against vital Iranian infrastructure and those of Israeli services and against the populations of both countries while demanding an end to the Israeli carnage against the people of Gaza. This could be the nature of a debate and decisions at the United Nations that every country should respect and enforce.

No people have an interest in this escalation. No people need to suffer and lose their loved ones under the iron of bombs to spare the Israeli Prime Minister imprisonment and the strengthening of the fundamentalist nationalism cultivated by the mullahs in power in Tehran.

Flawed arguments serve the worst. Since when does a country have the right to preemptively bomb another because its leader and regime are considered authoritarian? With such gibberish, how many wars should be started? The concept of "preventive war" does not exist anywhere in international law. A new tipping point is reached when a head of government prosecuted by international justice can allow himself to claim that he is preparing to assassinate the head of a neighboring state.

If Iran possessed and wanted to use nuclear weapons, how many minutes of life would it have left in the face of the wrath of international nuclear countermeasures?

To invoke the war necessary to export regime change is to make us forget the painful experiences of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, where the worst was reinforced. But as always and everywhere, the capitalist West wants to avoid a feminist, social, and democratic revolution in Iran. It is the sovereign Iranian people who can initiate such a process of peaceful transition to democracy and social justice, not other religious fundamentalists in power in Tel Aviv. Freedom does not come from the destruction of innocent lives.

It's a fact: Israel attacked Iran. It did so without a declaration of war and without a UN mandate. This new aggression only fuels the flames of the general conflagration simmering in the region.

The nationalist and supremacist power in Tel Aviv is attacking in all directions: Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Syria, and East Jerusalem, with the confiscation of Palestinian property and colonization.

Within the capitalist West, which is selling the Israeli government the means for these military offensives, there is bleating and mumbling about "the inalienable right to self-defense." This is a curious reversal of responsibility to camouflage the Israeli state's latest violation of international law and the additional notch in the spiral of a worrying movement that is pushing us toward the abyss.

That Iran is working on the atomic bomb is one thing. Accusing it of an imminent nuclear threat is as fallacious as the phantom of the weapons of mass destruction that were used to launch the Iraq War without a UN mandate. Moreover, and by a curious coincidence, the Israeli bombings were launched the day before US-Iranian talks to halt this program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Israel was thus tasked with sabotaging a diplomatic outcome. President Trump has announced that he has known for "two weeks" that Israel would strike this Friday, June 13.

Knowing that the Iranian economy is weakened and in crisis, knowing the internal dissensions within the Iranian leadership, and measuring the strength of the protests against the Islamist and authoritarian regime, the capitalist West is giving its green light to a state already guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, ignoring international law to reshape the Near and Middle East to make it a profitable zone for its multinationals, its military-industrial complex and its financial institutions.

The operation has several triggers. The designated global public enemy in the form of Iran has caused the window of opportunity to be overlooked in the condemnations of the crime of genocide in Gaza to be forgotten, has caused the Israeli government to abandon any attempt to draw the so-called "red lines," and has postponed indefinitely the conference where recognition of the State of Palestine was to be discussed.

The sacred union in the West is strong. It also serves a sacred union within Israel. And contrary to what the propaganda suggests, war and destruction are also fostering national unity in Iran, the nationalism that fuels the "Islamist republic" and weakens the popular, feminist, and progressive movement in the struggle against the dictatorship in Tehran.

Let us add that the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites carries the seeds of a nuclear and ecological catastrophe of which the Iranian population will be victims.

Once again, in violation of international law, the dominant powers are attempting to push the project of "Greater Israel" and a new Middle East in order to expand their space for exploiting resources and putting human beings in competition. The hydrocarbon wealth of Iranian soil and the ninety million Iranians with a high level of education and culture are of the greatest interest to the North American Empire.

Those who might doubt the dangerous byways into which nationalism, the far right, and fundamentalism are pushing us, which only serve the most unbridled capitalism, have just had a new and deadly demonstration. Endorsing this strategy, continuing to arm criminals and warmongers, allowing ourselves to be drawn into unhealthy propaganda, where any defender of international law and human rights becomes an anti-Semite thrown into the pit of denigration, amounts to annihilating our freedom to think and act for a humane globality, a world of peace, a world common to all human beings living in harmony with nature. Against simplistic views and lies, against crimes and deprivations of liberty, let us not divide ourselves. Let us rise up for justice and peace.