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The US and Israel have waged war on Iran. Russia has reaped the benefits, using fossil fuel profits to bankroll its war on Ukraine. Frieda Afary, Denys Pilash, Alexandra Zapolskaya and Ashley Smith discuss the impacts on Iranians and Ukrainians.

The Western media prefers to promote those who back the monarchy, the regime or Western imperialism. For the fight against these evils to succeed, we must support the invisible majority of Iranians who reject all these powers. writes Nasrin Parvaz.

The message of the NYT’s report, “How Trump Took U.S to War with Iran,” is clear: this war could have been avoided if better judgement prevailed. Ali Keshtkar says this framing carries a fundamental problem.

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

Joseph Daher analyzes the expansion of the US-Israel war into Lebanon, its impact on that country and on Iran’s ally Hezbollah.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.