Iran - January 24th, 2026

Just like genocidal al Assad did in Syria in 2011, the Iranian theocracy has massacred the revolutionary masses throughout Iran, leaving a bloodshed of 30,000 dead and hundreds of disappeared and political prisoners. Murderers!

The clergy launched this counterrevolutionary offensive before the exploited could overthrow the regime and government with their revolutionary actions on the streets or they could seriously wound and disarticulate the state.

The masses in struggle started to set up dual power organisms and, although still in their early stages, they began to arm themselves. That is to say, incipient shoras started to emerge. Those were the workers and rank and file solders councils in the heroic revolution of 1979.

Precisely to prevent this scenario, the bloody theocracy stroke its counterrevolutionary blow to smash the revolting masses  .
Once the clergy had done the “dirty job” of massacring workers and the people poor, while keeping a terror regime against the masses with murders, missing people, persecutions and jail, now US imperialism sends its fleet to the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.

In Iran, USA is seeking its “Delcy Rodríguez” to remove Khamenei and pact directly with Trump while an untouched Islamic Guard keeps killing workers.
The plan is Venezuela. There, the “anti-imperialist” Bolivarian Guard and its acting president are kneeling to their lord Trump, while it is now crystal clear that Maduro’s handing-in had been negotiated beforehand. They have given themselves up!
Just like the Ayatollahs gave themselves up last June in 12 minutes to the US imperialists and Zionism (and there are still people talking about the “12-days war”….) isolating Gaza so that the latter could massacre at will. The same as they did in Lebanon. Cowards!

The US imperialists have launched this offensive on Iran when the final massacre of Gaza is being defined. This is only one and the same battle, this is one class war that the US has coordinated and centralized at the Middle East with the Arab bourgeoisies as accomplices. Achieving its offensive in the region would allow Trump to take the Imperialist European powers by the throat on the oil routes, even sealing a deal with Putin on Ukraine and deepening the commercial war against China.
The US policy in the Middle East is total war, though without risking its own troops: it uses different bourgeoisie fractions, submitting them to its power and political and military threats. Under that condition, US imperialism could share some portions of the big business with them.
USA seeks to surrender Iran. It also seeks to surrender Gaza. With its fleet and gunboats it seeks to strengthen Sunni bourgeoisie in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and also in Iraq for them to do the “dirty job” of fencing in and even invading Iran, using their own troops on land while the US bombs from afar, from its planes and warships. 

Street fascist cannot directly intervene with their troops since they are still far from having defeated the US working class. US workers would not accept having bags of corpses in Washington due to the military adventures of their own Imperialist butcher bourgeoisie.

The more the Iranian murderous regime smashes the revolutionary wave of hungry workers, women, rebel youth and oppressed people, the more bandit Trump with the Wall Street pirates can send the war fleet to remove those who have completed their “dirty job”.

Once the masses are totally mashed and massacred, the US imperialist will go to keep Iranian oil, but without middlemen.

That is the cowardly and sinister role of the native bourgeoisies. They are minor partners to Imperialism, therefore they prefer defeating and mashing the masses before the revolutions of workers and the people poor defeat imperialism and conquer national independence. This is because native bourgeoises business would also be at risk.

Any leftist that calls the working class to politically submit to any of its executioners is a traitor… And their betrayals are paid by the masses with starvation and death.
The Stalinist scum specializes in this. Even after they had handed in the Workers states, they didn't disappear: they are still politically alive…  That’s because the Trotskyite renegades support them and retake their pseudo-theory of two-stage-revolution and their policy of aligning with the “progressive” bourgeois camps. They must explain themselves! There is already too much bloodshed by the workers and the exploited. 

Facing the US warships deployment in the Middle East, the clergy announce they will bomb the Us military bases in West Asia… but they have only thrown 2 missiles on Tel Aviv in the 12 minutes “war” before surrendering! They are not credible. Theirs are only threats for negotiating from a better stand.

Cowards! Why did they not send the Islamic Guard —currently killing Iranian workers—to Gaza to combat alongside the Palestinean resistance? Wouldn’t it be a simpler task than bombing every US military base in West Asia?   

No one can dress this millionaire clergy scum as "anti-imperialist". As the masses cry on the street: “They live like kings and the people like beggars!

Editorial Committee of “The International Workers' Organizer”