By The International League of People’s Struggle-Philippines
ILPS-hilippines strongly condemns the reckless and genocidal threats issued by US President Donald Trump against Iran even as we cautiously welcome the two-week ceasefire that Washington announced.
Trump’s declarations, including ultimatums, threats to destroy civilian infrastructure, and statements that “a whole civilization will die,” further expose him as an imperialist madman willing to plunge entire nations and peoples into ruin to preserve US global hegemony.
We must be vigilant that the US and Israel will respect the declared ceasefire, unlike in Gaza where the US-backed Zionist regime continued its relentless attacks despite the supposed ceasefire deal that Trump brokered.
Let us not forget that this senseless war is taking place because of the treacherous attacks by the US and Israel on Iran, amid ongoing diplomatic talks on the latter’s nuclear program that, by all accounts, were going well. Iran exercising control over the Strait of Hormuz is a sovereign and legitimate act of self-defense in the face of such murderous treachery and vicious war of aggression that the US and Israel are waging against Iran with impunity.
Let us not forget that the stated reason for this war, that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, has been repeatedly refuted by numerous reports and statements, including from the US’s own intelligence community. Like how George W. Bush fabricated Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to justify the US imperialist invasion of Iraq in 2003, Trump concocted the lies of Iran’s nuclear weapons to legitimize its regime change agenda in Iran and consolidate its control over West Asian territories and resources.
Trump’s belligerence, in tandem with the Zionist aggression of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, is dragging not just Iran and West Asia, but the whole world toward a catastrophic war. This unjust, unprovoked, and illegal war is killing thousands of innocent lives, including children in Iran, Lebanon, and Israel. At the same time, this US-Israel imperialist war is wiping out tens of millions of livelihoods around the world because of the global oil shock that the war spawned, with the shipping of oil and other commodities through the Strait of Hormuz severely limited.
Trump, who harbors delusions of US invincibility, has no right to dictate the fate of sovereign nations. We reject the false and deceptive framing that Iran’s assertion of sovereignty and its pursuit of peaceful nuclear energy constitute a “threat.” Iran’s demands, such as the lifting of illegal US economic sanctions, respect for its territorial integrity, guarantees against further aggression, and the right to resist foreign domination, are just, legitimate, and grounded in international law.
The US-Israel war machine stands today as the most dangerous force undermining global peace and stability, not Iran’s legitimate right to resist foreign aggression and exercise control over its territory, including on the Strait of Hormuz. US imperialism and its endless wars, coercive sanctions, global network of military bases, and deployment of troops and weapons to control the world’s territories and resources are stoking perpetual conflicts, deaths, and destruction.
For the Filipino people, who have long suffered US colonial and neocolonial subjugation, it is clear that the massive oil price spikes and rapid deterioration of living conditions in the country today are brought about by US-Israel imperialist aggression against a sovereign nation, made worse by defective economic policies, that US imperialism also imposed, such as oil deregulation and regressive fuel taxes.
We therefore join the growing global demand that the US and Israel stop their attacks against Iran and respect its sovereignty to create the necessary conditions for the normalization of shipping along the Strait of Hormuz and calm the global prices of oil and other commodities.
We demand that Trump and Netanyahu be held accountable for their criminal acts and the atrocities they committed against the people of Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon in the course of this war.
Let us further strengthen and broaden the peoples’ global solidarity and movements against US imperialism and for peace, justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.
Stop the US-Israel war on Iran! Down with US imperialism! Long live international solidarity!
