Military Victory to Iran!

Defeat US/Israeli Criminal Aggression —
For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East

The military assault on Iran by the United States and its Zionist junior partner is aimed at a “regime change” over-throw of the Islamic Republic in favor of a pro-imperialist puppet government. Thus far, things are not going well for the aggressors and with the looming disastrous economic consequences of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trumpites are considering dispatching ground troops to supplement their sizeable “armada” already in the region. Iran is taking a lot of punishment from the air but it has been able to inflict enough damage to the imperialist radar network in the Persian Gulf to allow it to repeatedly strike both US and Israeli military targets. While Marxists offer no political support to the theocratic regime in Tehran, we are not neutral in this conflict; the international working class has a vital interest in seeing Iran and its allies defeat the US/Israeli war machine.

The hypocrisy of the nuclear-armed Israelis and Americans claiming to have gone to war to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is highlighted by Trump’s 2018 decision to rip up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This move, upheld by the subsequent Biden administration, made it clear that “non-proliferation” was never the issue. The real motivation, as in Iraq in 2003, is to seize control of West Asia’s energy resources.

Although Tehran has endlessly repeated that it has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, Marxists uphold Iran’s right to possess an atomic counter to the nuclear Sword of Damocles held over it by the Israeli/US aggressors. As many observers have noted, nuclear deterrence is the reason that North Korea has thus far been left alone while Libya was brutally attacked and dismembered.

‘Trump Doctrine’: Military aggression to mask economic decay

Trump’s “war of choice” may turn out to be a major milestone in the terminal crisis of American imperial hegemony. Despite sanctions and sabotage of its industry and technology—as well as the assassination of many prominent scientists and other figures—Iran possesses a sophisticated military which has effectively shut down energy production in the region, thereby severely disrupting global financial markets while turning a great deal of US military infrastructure in the region into piles of rubble.

Trump is under a lot of domestic pressure; he should hardly be surprised at seeing his MAGA base melt away as the White House has made no attempt to manufacture consent for the Iranian adventure from an American public exhausted by decades of “forever wars.” The combination of mounting military casualties and domestic economic carnage seems likely to shred what little popular support still exists for this whole criminal enterprise.

This war is both a function and accelerant of US eco-nomic decline. In September 2025, pollsters reported only 25 percent of Americans still believe it is possible to significantly improve their lives through hard work—the traditional promise of the “American Dream”. Record-high household debt and a completely unsustainable national debt (currently standing at $38 trillion and growing by $2 trillion a year) has severely undermined the US dollar as the global reserve currency, and with it the chief mechanism of American global economic supremacy. The apparently successful resistance thus far offered by Iranian forces suggests that Washington may have considerable difficulty substituting the blunt instrument of military coercion for the leverage provided by manipulating the world’s financial architecture.

Defeat US/Zionist axis of evil!
Iranian workers to Power!

Iranian revolutionaries must oppose pro-imperialist elements who identify with the murderous Pahlavi dynasty so beloved by the Israelis and Americans, while reaching out to the masses of Iranian workers and youth who resent the stifling clerical autocracy which has ruled Iran for almost half a century.

In 1979 the left and workers’ movement played a decisive role in toppling the hated Shah through massive political strikes in the oil, transport, and manufacturing sectors that effectively paralyzed the economy. Yet rather than competing for hegemony with the mullahs in the mass anti-Shah movement, the Iranian left opted to support the clerics as some sort of “lesser evil”. Our political predecessors in the revolutionary Spartacist tendency of the 1970s opposed this disastrous capitulation and presciently observed:

“The strike battles now being waged by the Iranian workers could be the basis of the independent mobilization of the proletariat as a competitor for power with Khomeini, not as cannon fodder for the mullahs. In the imperialist epoch, the democratic tasks of freeing oppressed nationalities, agrarian revolution, and breaking down imperialist domination can be carried out only under the leadership of the Iranian proletariat. But these urgent democratic demands require the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship for their success, not the dissolution of the working class into the petty-bourgeois masses.”
—”Down with the Shah! Don’t Bow to Khomeini!”, Workers Vanguard No. 221, 15 December 1978

Marxists favor the military victory of Iran over the US/ Zionist aggressors, but we hold no brief for Tehran’s oppressive theocracy. The Iranian masses today need a revolutionary party with a leadership which has assimilated the lessons of 1979. The liberation of the Iranian masses from both imperialism and the mullahs is only possible through proletarian revolution, the historic task of the country’s powerful working class.

Defend Iran—hot cargo war materiel for the US/Zionist military!
For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East—Down with Zionism, Islamic fundamentalism and Imperialism!