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In defense of Iran against the genocidal attack by Israel and U.S. imperialism!

Explosions in Tehran, shared by an anonymous Iranian via Wikimedia Commons

International Workers' League

February 28, 2026

US imperialism and Israel are attacking Iran right now. This attack is set to be much larger than the one in June 2025.

The bombings have already hit several Iranian cities, including Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Tabriz, and others. Both Trump and Netanyahu openly aim to eliminate Khamenei and Iran’s leadership.

They seek not only to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and military bases, but also to impose a regime subservient to Trump.

US imperialism invaded Venezuela, kidnapped Nicolás Maduro, and seized Venezuelan oil. Now it wants to repeat that in Iran. This would legitimize Israel’s control of the entire Middle East and the genocidal Netanyahu. Iran is an ally of China, to which it exported 80% of its oil. With this attack, Trump also seeks to advance his confrontation with China and his control of global oil.

Trump also seeks to distract domestic attention in the United States at a time when there are mobilizations directly against him and his repression of immigrants, starting in Minneapolis.

Iran has reacted militarily. There are reports of Iranian attacks on US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait, and of missiles also being launched against Israel. Despite this being a brutally unequal war between two nuclear powers and a semi-colonial country, there is an Iranian military response.

We defend Iran against the imperialist and Israeli attack! We defend Iran’s right to defend itself, and even to have nuclear weapons.

We call for worldwide mobilizations against this imperialist and Zionist attack on Iran!

This does not mean any kind of political support for the dictatorship of the ayatollahs in Iran. We have defended the mass mobilizations against the Iranian dictatorship. But it is the Iranian people, and not US imperialism and Netanyahu’s genocidal Zionism, who must decide the future of their country.

We call for worldwide mobilizations against this imperialist and Zionist attack on Iran!

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