A-Infos (en) Spaine, Regeneracion: Facing Genocidal Zionism in Gaza and Against US Aggression in Iran By Angel Malatesta (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The ongoing conflict in the East, which acts as a true doctrine of 
shock, threatened to expand uncontrollably and escalate throughout the 
region with more actors, and even with serious risks of 
internationalization, due to the bombing of three nuclear facilities in 
Iran by the United States. The latest developments, changing completely 
day after day, and almost hour after hour, ratified a permanent and 
sustained ceasefire, which is uncertain due to the fragility of the 
facts. One of the clear objectives of Israeli Zionism was to completely 
overshadow the ongoing Palestinian genocide and continue murdering 
Gazans. Imperialist geopolitics is a weapon completely contrary to any 
morality, as is the capitalist system that fuels and originates it, and 
this is a cruel reality for our class interests, but it is undoubtedly 
the point of analysis from which we must begin to combat it. In the face 
of their wars, our revolutionary organization and a peaceful solution as 
an anti-imperialist strategy.

Index

History of this conflict in the East and its imperialist implications.
Contemporary hostilities in the Middle East have been a continuing 
reality since the last century due to imperialist interference, as it is 
a region of high strategic value for consolidating global domination and 
a territory for waging indirect conflicts between powers. The 
Zionist-Iranian rivalry dates back to the 1980s, when, following the 
triumph of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in 1979, the new 
Islamic Republic of Iran was founded, deposing the Shah of Persia, until 
then an ally of Israel and the United States. This political shift in 
the region represents a complete change in relations, as the regime of 
the Ayalotas was led by conservative Shia clerics who imposed a 
theocratic and authoritarian government in Iran to this day. An Iranian 
foreign policy against Israeli Zionism was initiated, breaking all 
previous agreements established with the Shah of Iran's regime and now 
also finding the United States as an enemy.

However, US imperialism has always played a destabilizing role in the 
Middle East, either directly or through its ally Israel. The US, under 
the Ronald Reagan administration, even sold arms to its new enemy, Iran, 
in that country's war against Iraq, governed by Saddam Hussein's Arab 
nationalism in the 1980s, and with the sale of these arms, it financed 
the Nicaraguan counterinsurgency. Iran began to support and finance 
various Islamic resistance movements against the Zionist state of 
Israel, initially the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah 
in southern Lebanon, and even the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. In 
fact, Iran had been supporting the Syrian government in the civil war 
since 2012, sending equipment and paramilitary forces against the Syrian 
rebels and establishing arms and training corridors for Hezbollah forces 
across the Syrian border. However, this situation changed dramatically 
when the Assad regime fell in December 2024, with the current phase of 
the genocide against Palestine underway since October 2023.

Zionist aggression to overshadow the genocide in Gaza.
The current conflict following Israel's aggression against Iran on June 
13 has its most immediate antecedents in the Israeli attacks in April 
2024, when its air force bombed a building adjacent to the Iranian 
embassy in Damascus, killing 14 people. In response, Israel launched a 
coordinated deployment of ballistic missiles and drones from Iran, 
Lebanon, and Yemen. Israel then decided to bomb some military positions 
in Tehran, some radars, and areas near its international airport. In the 
summer of 2024, Israel attacked Beirut, first assassinating a senior 
Hezbollah official and then carrying out an attack prepared for years, 
detonating the personal pagers of hundreds of Hezbollah militants. This 
culminated in the ground invasion of southern Lebanon in October 2024. 
Iran responded by sending 180 ballistic missiles to Israel and by Israel 
with three waves of bombings on Tehran less than a month later, 
resulting in a stalemate at that point.

The Zionist justification for their attack, and for the subsequent US 
support and aggression, is Iran's failure to comply with nuclear 
nonproliferation measures and its nuclear program aimed at enriching 
uranium for nuclear warheads. Israel has been secretly developing 
nuclear weapons at the Negev Nuclear Research Center since 1958. A 
decade later, the US claimed that Israel possessed nuclear weapons. 
Although it remains silent on the matter, it is estimated that it has 
stored between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads, also disregarding the 
"Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," which it has never ratified.

The current conflict is between a theocratic and conservative government 
like Iran's, which plays the role of wanting to be a regional power in 
the territory, versus an ultranationalist and genocidal Zionist movement 
that is working to destabilize US imperialism in the region. That past 
June 13th, coordinated Israeli attacks with fighter jets and drones from 
inside Iran, knocking out its radars and defenses, resulted in 
approximately 70 deaths, including the assassination of senior Iranian 
military officials and nuclear scientists. Until now, there had been a 
daily exchange of attacks and waves of bombings with ballistic missiles 
and drones targeting various mutual military targets, television 
stations, government buildings, and even civilian areas. This has left a 
death toll of 430 on Iranian soil and 24 in the territory occupied by 
Zionists. However, although Donald Trump had said he would wait two 
weeks to give diplomacy a chance, he was already preparing and had 
decided to attack Iran, entering the conflict fully.

The criminal US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
On June 22, several aircraft, including B-2 bombers, launched an attack 
with bunker-busting bombs (GBU-57), which penetrate deeply underground 
due to their weight of more than 13 tons. Several submarines also 
completed the attack with Tomahawk missiles, hitting the nuclear 
facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow, the latter located 
underground under a mountain. This pre-planned attack has been strongly 
condemned by Russia and China, and the Arab world has also spoken out 
against it, as has a majority of countries in Latin America and Africa.

We do not ignore the fact that we are facing two implacable regimes: the 
Israeli state, decisively genocidal, and the Iranian state, defending 
itself against a brutal aggression from the imperialist axis. The US 
attack, along with Israel's aggression, seeks to overthrow the current 
Islamic political regime in Iran and establish a NATO-allied puppet 
government. To this end, the son of the former Persian Shah is already 
emerging as the main internal opponent. Furthermore, the triumphalist 
rhetoric from both sides only fuels a warlike mentality among the 
world's peoples and isolates a class narrative. As anarchists, we 
position ourselves on a clear third way without resorting to 
equidistance, hoping that the opposition in this conflict will be a 
popular organization that is class-conscious and anti-imperialist in 
every sense. A portion of the Jewish people repudiates Zionism and must 
emerge as a key political actor to combat that ideology and its actions. 
While popular opposition also exists in Iran, as evidenced in 2022 by 
the mobilizations following the murder of the young Mahsa Amini by the 
Iranian morality police for not wearing the hijab correctly.

In the face of their wars, a revolutionary class organization.
The drumbeats of war drummed by leaders like Trump, or by Europe itself, 
maintaining its stance of defending the Zionist state of Israel in the 
face of its discursive blackmail, only prepare the ground for a 
large-scale open conflict that, if not happening now, imperialism is 
making clear will eventually happen. Israel not only intended to attack 
Iran's weapons capacity but also to destabilize the government of the 
ayatollahs, knowing that Netanyahu's government is also increasingly 
under scrutiny both internally and internationally. Since Israel saw 
that it couldn't do it alone, the United States had to act, striking a 
blow and bringing the world to the brink of the abyss. However, we 
cannot focus our criticism solely on Trump and Netanyahu as two 
psychopathic managers of neoliberalism, because we would be ignoring the 
root of the problem: Zionism and US imperialism as underlying ideologies 
to combat.

Until now, Iran had been left in a position where the decision on a 
delicate self-defense response could be taken by imperialism as a new 
justification for a savage attack. Initially, the blockade of the Strait 
of Hormuz, through which 20 million barrels of crude oil pass daily, 
seemed to be approved. This would have a global economic and energy 
impact, although it would also have a significant impact on Iran itself. 
However, Iran ended up attacking one of the main US bases in the East, 
specifically in Doha, the capital of Qatar. This missile attack, even 
previously announced, appears to have been the public and symbolic 
response to the criminal US attack condemned by half the world. The 
latest news confirms a permanent ceasefire agreement, raising the 
temperature of imperialist geostrategy to continue weaving tactics to 
defend its interests and force its people to surrender without 
palliatives. However, as stated, the situation changes every day, and 
new chapters are generated in this tale of the shock doctrine and the 
construction of a widespread sense of warmongering.

This game of conflicting criminal strategies by these actors in a region 
that is a powder keg, and in which Russia and China have so far not 
intervened directly, creates a complex situation with the US attacks. We 
must continue to highlight the genocide in Gaza, where more than 500 
Palestinians have been massacred at food distribution points in recent 
weeks, and, above all, denounce this imperialist aggression against 
Iran. The revolutionaries of the world must prepare for cruelly 
unpleasant scenarios, to maintain firm ideological and strategic 
positions for the end of domination and oppression. In the face of the 
abyss of war, our commitment to peace among peoples and our class 
organization remain.

Angel Malatesta, Liza activist

https://www.regeneracionlibertaria.org/2025/07/17/frente-al-sionismo-genocida-en-gaza-y-contra-la-agresion-de-estados-unidos-en-iran/
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