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World War III Skyrocketing Oil/Gas Prices Sets Stage for World Economic Crisis Sink U.S. Empire in the Persian Gulf! Iran Clearly Needs a Nuclear Deterrent Against Nuclear-Armed U.S./Israel Terrorists With the U.S./Israel war on Iran in its fourth week, the White House and Pentagon are panicked, desperately looking for ways out of the hot mess they have plunged the world into. Trump wanted to avoid a “forever war” like the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, that lasted a generation. But for all the murderous firepower they have unleashed against Iran, the imperialist and Zionist warmongers have only managed to provoke the largest disruption of oil supplies in history. U.S. president Donald Trump’s “exit strategy” seems to be to stage an apocalyptic air/ground attack. The world is on a knife edge. Israeli rulers would be happy to see Iran break up and collapse economically. But if Trump were to carry out any of his multiple threats (to obliterate Iran’s electrical energy system, to seize control of its oil, to grab its cache of enriched uranium and to militarily unblock the Strait of Hormuz), it all could explode dramatically. The Iran war has the potential to trigger initial skirmishes of a third world war, aimed at Iran allies Russia and China. More than ever, the situation cries out for the leadership of a genuinely communist party to defend Iran on a class basis against the imperialist/Zionist attackers, and to mobilize powerful workers actions against the war, as part of the struggle for international socialist revolution. Sink U.S. Empire in the Persian Gulf! (28 March 2026) War Criminals Carry Out AI-Assisted Mass Murder U.S. Imperialists Massacre Iranian Girls School On the morning of February 28, in the opening salvo of U.S. bombardment of Iran, two missiles hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, killing more than 170. Most of the victims were girls and boys between the ages of 7 and 12. This massacre has become emblematic of the new face of imperialist warfare: automation of mass murder through the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI). From the outset, the United States and Israel have engaged in a relentless campaign of terror bombing, hitting some 600 schools. To rapidly generate thousands of targets, the Pentagon has relied on Maven Smart System, created by the notorious data analytics company Palantir, and Anthropic AI's chatbot Claude. In the genocidal U.S./Israel war on the Palestinians in Gaza, AI-generated targeting was also used. While Senate Democrats have tried to capitalize on the blowback over the Minab massacre, many of them receive donations from Palantir, whose close relationship with the military began during the Obama administration.The orgy of mass murder is a reflection of the moral depravity of U.S. rulers and the desperation of U.S. imperialism, which can only be stopped by world socialist revolution. U.S. Imperialists Massacre Iranian Girls School(March 2026) For International Workers Action Defend Iran – Defeat U.S./Israel War! For Iran's Right to Nuclear Weapons Against Israeli and U.S. Nuclear-Armed Terrorists! For the second time in eight months, the United States and Israel have launched a war against Iran with the aim of overthrowing the government and installing a pro-imperialist regime, while destroying Iran’s nuclear industry and its missiles. After kidnapping the president of Venezuela’s Bolivarian republic, Nicolás Maduro, and taking control of Venezuela’s oil, the would-be Yankee emperor Donald Trump is out to topple the Islamic Republic … and grab Iran’s oil. Israel’s genocidal strongman Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to cement Zionist dominance in the Middle East. At this crucial hour, the League for the Fourth International calls on all revolutionary socialists, class-conscious workers and opponents of imperialist world domination to defend Iran, a semicolonial country, and to take a stand for the defeat of the genocidal imperialist and Zionist warmongers. Internationally, the LFI calls for workers action against the war on Iran, and to stop arms to Israel. In Iran, Trotskyists would call for workers to mobilize to crush the attempt to restore the rule of the bloody dynasty of Shah Reza Pahlavi, the imperialist puppets today being promoted by Israel. While giving no political support to the mullah regime, the fight should be for workers revolution. Defend Iran – Defeat U.S./Israel War! (28 February 2026) The Real “No. 1 State Sponsor of Terror” Against the Peoples of the World: U.S. Imperialism Defend Iran Against Criminal U.S./Israel War, Defeat Imperialist/Zionist Genocidal War-Makers Iran Has the Right to Nuclear Weapons to Deter Israeli and U.S. Nuclear-Armed Terrorists! In a monstrous criminal attack, in the early morning hours of June 22, U.S. warplanes bombed multiple sites in Iran on orders from President Donald Trump. At least a dozen monster “bunker buster” bombs were dropped on the Fordo nuclear site, as well as on other sites. In announcing his brazen act of war, Trump called Iran the “bully of the Middle East,” saying it was to put a “a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror.” In reality, the world’s No. 1 terrorist power and global bully is U.S. imperialism, which has armed to the teeth the genocidal Zionist butchers of Gaza. Both under Trump and his Democratic predecessors, the imperialist U.S. rulers are careening toward a thermonuclear World War III that only international socialist revolution can stop. The League for the Fourth International and its U.S. section, the Internationalist Group, stand for defense of Iran against the criminal U.S./Israel war, and for defeat of the imperialist and Zionist war-makers. And we reiterate that Iran has a right to nuclear weapons to deter the nuclear-armed imperialist and Zionist terrorists. Defend Iran Against Criminal U.S./Israel War, Defeat Imperialist/Zionist War-Makers (22 June 2025) From Obama to Trump: Down with U.S. Murder, Inc. Defeat U.S. Imperialism – Defend Iran! For International Workers Action – Drive the Imperialists Out of the Middle East The January 2 assassination of Qassim Suleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, by a U.S. drone strike was a blatant “act of war” – but more than that, it was the opening salvo of a U.S. imperialist war on Iran. In ordering the murder of the second most powerful leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, U.S. president Donald Trump left the regime no choice but to retaliate against the marauding superpower that threatens its very existence. In this war, class-conscious workers and revolutionaries everywhere have a side: the Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International call to defeat U.S. imperialism and defend Iran. We call in particular for international workers action against Washington’s war. The Democrats, one and all, hail Obama’s 2015 agreement with Iran (as well the European Union, Russia and China) limiting Iran’s nuclear program. Yet this pact subjects Iran to blackmail by U.S. imperialism and the militarist Zionist regime which has hundreds of nukes, and whose leaders are crazy enough to use them. The LFI defends Tehran’s right to develop nuclear arms for its defense against these kill-crazy warmongers. We stand for defense of Iran against the U.S. attack, while giving no political support to its capitalist government. The LFI calls to bring out the power of the working class to bring down the Islamist, monarchist, militarist and Zionist regimes, drive out the imperialists and establish a socialist federation of the Middle East. Defeat U.S. Imperialism – Defend Iran! (3 January 2020) For Workers Revolution Against Mullah Rule! Iran’s Islamic Republic in Turmoil – What Program for Struggle? Free Jailed Protesters and Labor Activists! U.S. Imperialists Hands Off! Iran is still wracked with turmoil a month and a half after the hotly disputed presidential elections. Aggressive attacks on demonstrators by repressive forces under the command of President Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei have not been able to stop the demonstrations. So far protests have hewed to the political limits laid down by the theocratic regime, but if the struggle deepens against an increasingly militarized regime, that could be called into question. Most of the left internationally has fallen into line either behind the hard-line government or the Islamist reformers led by former prime minister Mousavi. Yet the contending camps are both committed to maintaining clerical capitalist rule. While fighting against the “electoral coup d’état,” Trotskyists say Iranian workers should seek not to install Mousavi in office but to raise democratic demands, including for a revolutionary secular constituent assembly, as part of a struggle to establish their own class rule, by bringing down the Islamic Republic and establishing a workers and peasants government that initiates socialist revolution. Iran’s Islamic Republic in Turmoil –What Program for Struggle?(July 2009) Where Were You, David North? (July 2009) For Workers Revolution Against the Islamic Dictatorship! Mass Protests Rock Iran: No to All Wings of the Mullah Regime! U.S. Imperialism Hands Off! For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative “populist” government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction. Mass Protests Rock Iran: No to All Wings of the Mullah Regime (23 June 2009) |
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