1) Any U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran is illegal and illegitimate—an unprovoked war of aggression against a sovereign country—and must be opposed by every decent person. The U.S. says it wants to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But the U.S. and Israel together have thousands of nukes, and the U.S. is the only country ever to use them, murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians in Japan. Israel says it wants Iran to get rid of its missiles. But Israel has used missiles and bombs to slaughter people throughout the Middle East. What right do the U.S. and Israel have to decide who can have nukes and missiles and who can’t? None whatsoever. Those of us living in the U.S., the belly of the beast, have a special responsibility to stop the crimes of “our” government, and demand: NO WAR ON IRAN!

2) The Islamic Republic of Iran is a brutal fascist theocracy, a highly unequal capitalist society, backed by imperialist powers (yes, Russia and China are imperialists). A regime that enslaves women, oppresses minorities, tortures dissidents, and murders leftists. A regime with the highest execution rate in the world, that just gunned down thousands of protesters in the streets. And no, the fact that Iran opposes the U.S. and supports certain Palestinian groups does not make it a force for liberation. Every decent person throughout the world should support the just struggle of the Iranian people against this oppressive regime!

3) The people of Iran desperately need liberation, but fascist genocidal imperialists can never be “liberators.” Look at what the U.S. did to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, destroying those countries. Look at what Israel did to Gaza. Haven't we learned by now that they are not bringing "democracy" to anyone?! The U.S. and Israel don’t give a damn about the people of Iran. What the U.S. cares about is maintaining its dominant position in the global capitalist-imperialist system, and beating out its Russian and Chinese rivals by controlling the strategic region of the Middle East, and using Israel as its rabid dog enforcer. And now the U.S. and Israel are both run by fascist regimes, no better than the Islamic Republic of Iran, just more powerful. They are aiming to replace the Iranian regime with a puppet monarch named Reza Pahlavi—son of the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran who was overthrown in 1979 after inflicting decades of oppression and torture—a regime that would just be another nightmare for the Iranian people. Plus, every move that the U.S. and Israel make toward “regime change” in Iran actually helps the Islamic Republic to "justify" their murder of protesters by labeling them "foreign agents.” The people of Iran must decide their own fate!

4) From Iran, to Palestine, to the USA: THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND ILLEGITIMATE. WE NEED AND WE DEMAND A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM! Since World War 2 the U.S. has slaughtered 10 million people in its imperialist wars. Beginning in 1948, the U.S. has backed Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. In 1953, it orchestrated a coup in Iran to overthrow a popular elected leader. In the past 35 years, the U.S. has killed millions throughout the Middle East in at least four “official” wars, as well as countless “covert actions” and drone strikes. Now this capitalist-imperialist system, driven by the competitive chase for profit and the need to “expand or die,” is accelerating its destruction, unleashing fascism on the world and pushing humanity to the brink of extinction, from climate change as well as the growing danger of nuclear war between the U.S. and its rivals in Russia and China. Trump’s unconstrained aggression against the world is not fundamentally because of his “ego,” but is a product of this system. And the fact that the Democrats have perpetrated decades of war crimes, and now only issue mild complaints about Trump’s global bullying, is because they represent the same system.

5) We don’t have to live this way! In the world today we have the wealth and technology to meet the material and cultural needs of everyone on the planet. But under the current system, that wealth and technology is owned by a tiny class of capitalist exploiters and enforced by police and militaries. With a real revolution that breaks the stranglehold of these oppressors over society, we could begin to use these resources for the benefit of humanity, to overcome global inequalities and address the environmental crisis. As one expression of this, the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, written by Bob Avakian, clearly states that the new socialist government will dismantle the vast network of U.S. imperialist military bases throughout the world and renounce all wars of aggression and occupation.

6) As revolutionaries living in the U.S. we have a responsibility to make revolution here, and to support revolutionaries fighting for the same goal throughout the world. As our comrades in the Communist Party of Iran (MLM) have said:

The revolutionary overthrow of the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran] is urgently needed: But we will not allow Trump, the fascist president of the United States, to determine our fate and to exploit our struggles against the IRI for his unbridled imperialism, leaving our society trapped in the web of imperialist relations that is at the root of our current misery.

7) This is a rare time when revolution is more possible. As the fascist Trump regime rips up the old norms that people have been conditioned to accept, and wreaks havoc on a global scale, this is beginning to cause all kinds of chaos and force people to question the way things have been, and whether they have to stay that way. In this situation, the forces for the revolution could grow, quickly, from small numbers to thousands, and then millions, and get in position to go for the whole thing. Now’s the time to learn about and join the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity.

“We, the people of the world, can no longer afford to allow these imperialists to continue to dominate the world and determine the destiny of humanity. They need to be overthrown as quickly as possible. And it is a scientific fact that we do not have to live this way.”
—@BobAvakianOfficial