On June 22 the U.S. joined the attacks on nuclear facilities carried out by Israel. Trump intends to consolidate Zionism as a gendarme against the Arab peoples and guarantor of imperialist interests in the region. Tehran reaffirmed that it will continue the nuclear program and launched missiles against Israel. The escalation has worsened and could get worse.
By Ruben Tzanoff
Automatically translated by AI
Attack and first responses
In the early morning hours of June 22, at approximately 2:30 a.m. Iranian time, the White House reported that B-2 stealth bombers dropped GBU-57 anti-bunker bombs on the Fordow facility (buried under a mountain), accompanied by Tomahawk missiles fired from submarines at Natanz and Isfahan.
In this way, the United States joined the war between Israel and Iran.
Trump called the operation a “spectacular military success” and claimed that the nuclear facilities had been “completely obliterated”. In doing so, he trampled on his election promise not to get involved in further foreign conflicts in accordance with the geopolitical doctrine that “America First”.
Iran condemned the attack, reported that it was carried out against locations that “are under the continuous supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, based on the Safeguards Agreement and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),” that remain operational and that its nuclear industry will continue to operate.
Hours later, it launched dozens of ballistic missiles over Israel, activating sirens in Jerusalem and Haifa.
Different reactions
Netanyahu applauded the action he had been seeking for a long time and congratulated Trump and affirmed that “peace is achieved with force”, reaffirming, as if it were lacking, the profoundly reactionary character of the Zionist ideology. The rhetorical peace to which he refers is not peace between peoples, it is the peace of the victors or of the cemeteries, as in Palestine.
In the U.S., there were questions about the constitutional legality of the attack without congressional authorization from both Republican and Democratic quarters.
China and Russia were critical of the US actions, warned about the dangers of the escalation and called for a diplomatic solution. In Latin America, Presidents Boric (Chile), Arce (Bolivia) and Petro (Colombia) condemned the attack. The European Union maintains open channels with Iran, without openly supporting or condemning the US military action.
Tomorrow we will see how the financial markets and oil transactions react in a capitalist economy that is still in crisis and for which instability and uncertainties are not good news.
New episode
Imperialism took the first step of direct involvement in the Israel-Iran war and Trump warned “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If it does not, future attacks will be much greater,” and sentenced that they are left with only one alternative “peace or tragedy.”
The escalation has widened and deepened, it is a fact, it will be seen to what extent, taking into account several intertwined aspects. The actions of Trump, who is a grotesque Bonapartist, a symptom of the imperialist decadence of the US and of the capitalist crisis. The values acquired by the equation pacts and aggressions. The scope of the responses of the State of Israel and Iran, not only at the external level but also in the face of the popular questionings that impact on both regimes. And the international pressures, both in terms of institutionality and the reaction of the masses to the imperialist aggression and the possibility of an even greater escalation.
U.S. out of the Middle East!
Regardless of the course of events, what is concrete is that the bombing is yet another serious imperialist interference, reaffirming that Trump intends to reestablish the weakened US hegemony and that he is provoking a new global disorder.
The US attacks are aimed at consolidating Israel as a gendarme of imperialist interests in the region. Beyond the strategic differences that separate us from the reactionary theocratic and repressive theocratic regime of the ayatollahs, we stand with the Iranian people against their aggressors! we repudiate the bombings and demand that they cease immediately! We call on the peoples of the Middle East to revolt with mass mobilizations to defeat Zionism and imperialism!
The USA and Israel have no right to impose decisions on energy development or on their political life. Only the workers and the mobilized people have the right to decide their destiny and the revolutionary path to defeat the regime of the ayatollahs!
The bourgeois, monarchist and authoritarian Arab governments collaborate explicitly or implicitly with the objectives of domination. It is necessary to confront them by resuming and deepening the path initiated by the Arab Springs. With mobilizations and strikes together with the working class, with democratic organizations of dual power and building revolutionary organizations. Down with the treacherous and complicit governments of Israel and the US!
At the same time, we will continue to promote the united mobilization against genocide, ethnic cleansing and colonization in Gaza, with a fundamental solution For a unique, secular, non-racist, democratic and socialist Palestine! And for the Socialist Revolution in the whole Middle East!
