On February 28, the U.S. launched an unprovoked war against Iran, while they were in the middle of negotiations. They were joined in this by Israel, which also launched a war against Lebanon. Over 4,000 people have already been killed by the U.S. and Israel. Yet this was not enough, and on Tuesday morning, Trump—after a weekend of increasingly unhinged and ever-more-bloody threats, some of which amounted to war crimes—this monster declared that he intended to wipe out the Iranian civilization!
After a day of worldwide outrage, the U.S. now says it has agreed to a two-week ceasefire of this unprovoked and brutal war against Iran. Four things must be said:
First, the very act of threatening to wipe out an entire civilization is in and of itself a criminal act of a criminal system. This open declaration of an intent to commit genocide is something that even Hitler did not do. Yet Trump gloried in it. What does that tell you about this country, that someone like this could be put into the most powerful office in the land not once, but twice?
Second, nobody should ever believe a promise from the president of the United States. This country has a long history of lies and deception, dating back to its beginning, with its horrific wars of extermination against the Native American peoples, all the way up through Vietnam, and Iraq and Gaza, and extending to this war itself, launched by surprise during negotiations. Those who lead and speak for the U.S.A. should never be trusted.
Third, the passivity of the American people in the face of repeated and ever-more ugly threats coming from the fascist Trump, including the threat to wipe out an entire civilization—which, again, is literal genocide—is shameful and amounts to complicity. We extend a sharp challenge to every decent person to break with this complicity, and we extend a sincere hand of unity to everyone who wants to break with such shameful complicity and fight for the interests of humanity.
Finally, this temporary agreement does not in any way undercut, but actually drives home, the essential truth illustrated by this war that as the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian has stated:
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!
THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND ILLEGITIMATE!
WE NEED AND WE DEMAND A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE AND A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM!
We… 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.