We don’t understand Iran’s position vis-à-vis the United States and its allies at all: the Iranian people are not surprised by the war. They expected it, given their anti-imperialist stance. They are not so much interested in negotiating an end to hostilities as in establishing a new international order. They are willing to suffer to advance their own agenda. Washington may win militarily, but it is Tehran that is making political progress...
That is what Iran is doing today.
From the outset, Iran was aware that it could not shoot down the Israeli-American air force. Its armed forces did manage to destroy some bombers in flight, but Iran chose instead to demonstrate to its Gulf Arab allies that the colonial powers were exploiting them. It attacked US military bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, and Qatar. It explained to each of these states that they were complicit in US aggression because they had ceded parts of their territory to the Pentagon, which was using it for its own purposes.
This time Iran is addressing us: we are complicit in a policy aimed at starving it, and we were unaware of it. Just as Germany, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bulgaria, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Romania, and the United Kingdom are complicit in the military aggression without ever having chosen to join it.
We will have to choose: either continue to starve the Iranians, pretending not to be aware of it, or free ourselves from the United States.
