The criminal war of aggression waged by the United States and Israel against Iran continues. There has been an operational pause with this so-called two-week ceasefire agreement, but that hasn’t stopped Apartheid Israel from massacring hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, despite that country being explicitly included in the ceasefire agreement brokered in Pakistan last week. The killing and aggression never stopped. The peace talks between Iran and the United States that took place Saturday in Islamabad ended without an agreement. Effectively we could call this a tactical pause wherein the United States has two weeks to restock its depleted weapons arsenal in the region and maybe score some political points in the process. I don’t think anyone is fooled. The United States has been working for decades to topple Iran as a sovereign state and it’s not about to stop now, despite getting a bloody nose and having most of its military bases in West Asia blown to smithereens by Iranian missiles and drones. Empires never give up easily, especially when taking down Iran is part of the American State’s broader agenda of isolating and overthrowing China.
It’s worth contrasting what both sides have been targeting since the war began on February 28th. The United States and Israel have systematically targeted civilians from day one when they slaughtered 168 school girls in the southern Iranian city of Minab. They’ve targeted schools, hospitals, agriculture, public squares crowded with people, water treatment facilities, power plants, civilian infrastructure that Iranian civilians rely on. While Iran has targeted what might be deemed non-military targets like oil and gas plants, pipelines, port facilities, Amazon data centres, hotels where American military personnel were staying after their bases got blown up, these targets had military dimensions. Iran and the broader resistance in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen overwhelmingly targeted military bases, arms factories, radar domes and other military infrastructure used by the United States and Israel. That’s a big difference. Iran is fighting a fundamentally defensive war while the United States and Israel are engaging in terrorism, trying to break the will of the Iranian people and they’ve been quite explicit about this goal.
And they’ve failed. The Iranian people are unbroken and continue to resist the aggression against their country. Iran has been very effective in this war of resistance, wrecking the American military presence in West Asia while using the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entrance to the Persian Gulf, to choke off the flow of oil to the United States and its allies. America, the superpower, has real problems now.
Links:
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, "Iran is winning the war. This is why."
Caitlin Johnstone, "The Empire is Losing its Ability to Hide its Ugly Nature."
Gabriel Rockhill, "Celebrating the Revolutionary Contributions of Michael Parenti."
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