Iran

Mitra Mahmoudi

No to war, no to distortion: A critique of ‘limitless unity’ within the anti-Iran war movement

Mitra Mahmoudi discusses the dangers of blurring political boundaries between the anti-war movement and Islamic Republic supporters in the name of “broad unity”.
Women Life Freedom placard

Opposing Western intervention and the Iranian regime

Samira Mohyeddin challenges dominant assumptions about Iran, questions the logic of external intervention, and reflects on the difficulties of sustaining a principled anti-war position in an increasingly polarized environment.
iran protest

Two tactics in the anti-Iran war movement

Ali Keshtkar asks: how can Iranian socialists best oppose a war being waged against a regime they are in political struggle against?
Tempest Lebanon

Lebanon and Hezbollah in the wake of empire: The expanding impact of the war on Iran

Joseph Daher analyzes the expansion of the US-Israel war into Lebanon, its impact on that country and on Iran’s ally Hezbollah.
A satellite image of the Persian Gulf, connected to the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz, 2025.

Justice for the Middle East is also about climate

Adam Hanieh discusses how accurate the claim “all wars are fought for oil” truly is and what developments we might expect in the Middle East in the future.
 The propaganda poster at a Tehran crossroads shows the first ‘Supreme Leader’, Ruhollah Khomeini, his successor Ali Khamenei (killed in the early days of the war) and his son Mojtaba Khamenei, who was subsequently appointed to the post (from left to right)

Iran: Neither intervention nor trivialization

Sanaz Azimipour and Mahtab Mahboub on why we need to oppose both imperial aggression and the Iranian regime.
iran protest

‘Behind every killed comrade, there are hundreds of comrades’: Interview on Iran with Shora Esmailian

Against the grim backdrop of US-Israeli imperialist aggression, Shora Esmailian speaks about Iranian society, its complexity, aspirations, uprisings, and their repression by the regime.
bombing in Iran

What makes the US war against Iran different?

Michael Pröbsting — The present war against Iran stands in glaring contradiction to the actual strategy of the White House, the so-called “Donroe Doctrine”. Why?
Map Iran

Against US-led imperialist war and for Iranian self-determination

Florence Oppen — For revolutionaries, the task is twofold: military opposition to imperialism, full solidarity with the Iranian people’s right of self-defense and political independence from the regime.
Trump on Iran

What is Trump’s objective in Iran?

Gilbert Achcar outlines the US’s objective in Iran, why it rests more on hope than certainty, and how it differs to those of Israel.
Israel attack on Tehran Feb 2026

Trump and Netanyahu’s lurch into Iran: Imperial hubris in the wake of a people’s uprising

Kevin B Anderson — Iranian people face attacks from both US imperialism/Israel and a brutally oppressive regime amid their struggle for democracy and social justice.
US bombing Iran

Asia-Pacific left statements: Stop the war on Iran

Statements by Socialist Alliance (Australia), Socialist Party of Malaysia, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, The Philippines) and Socialist Union/Socialist Youth Organization (Indonesia) condemning the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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