La Marx International

On February 28, 2026, the United States, in conjunction with the Israeli army (IDF), launched a massive bombing campaign against Iran. This occurred amidst ongoing negotiations between the imperialist government of Donald Trump and the Iranian Ayatollahs' Islamic oligarchy in Geneva, Switzerland, sponsored by Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi. In these negotiations, Trump sought to impose an agreement similar to the one he imposed on Venezuela, that is, to allow the Ayatollahs' capitalist dictatorship to implement political reforms in exchange for an agreement favorable to the political interests of imperialism in the region.

The attack has triggered a global stock market crash, a surge in oil and gas prices exacerbating global inflation, and a crisis in insurance companies that suspended coverage for maritime transport in the Gulf. All of this is worsening the "perfect storm" of the current global crisis of capitalism, as you can read by clicking here. The attack by the Donald Trump administration is a desperate attempt to cope with the failure and serious crisis his government is facing after its defeat at the hands of the American people, who thwarted the ICE intervention in Minnesota. Donald Trump faces the prospect of a tough electoral defeat in a few months when the midterm elections take place , which will exacerbate the crisis of his government. Cornered by soaring inflation, the wave of strikes by the American working class, the collapse in popular support for his government and the worsening of the global crisis of capitalism, Trump launches a desperate attack against Iran in order to reverse the inevitable collapse and failure of his policy.

Donald Trump is acting like a "mad firefighter" trying to put out a blaze with gasoline, in a military intervention that, as the hours pass, is far from resembling a walk in the park. The Pentagon's operation is crashing against the revolutionary upsurge engulfing the Middle East, causing significant losses not only in Iran, but also for Israel and the US: The Pentagon has already reported several soldier deaths, multiple attacks on its military bases in the Middle East, damage to its aircraft carriers, and the loss of several fighter jets.

The reality is that the US and Israeli aggression is occurring amidst the revolutionary powder keg engulfing the Middle East, given that the Third Palestinian Intifada defeated Israel's attempt to seize Gaza and inflicted over 80,000 casualties on the IDF. The Syrian revolution ended 70 years of the Assad regime, and the popular revolution erupted in Iran just two months ago, weakening the Ayatollah regime after the revolution that triggered the collapse of the rial, as you can read by clicking here. The US military faces the prospect of continued increases in its losses, measured by deaths, attacks on its military bases, and bombings.

Trump opens "Pandora's box" of revolution in the Middle East

Hours before the bombing began, Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi was in Washington, D.C., meeting with U.S. Vice President James Vance. Following the meeting, he announced that negotiations between the U.S. and Iranian governments were progressing smoothly. The imperialist plan, thus far, was to forge agreements like the one made with the government of Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela, and which is also being negotiated with the capitalist dictatorship of Cuba—agreements you can read about by clicking here. These agreements aim to prevent revolutions like those occurring around the world, such as in Nepal, by attempting to quell the revolutionary upsurge of the masses through minor democratic concessions and regime reforms, essentially to keep the dictators in power.

But the Trump Administration is already a crisis government that fails to resolve any of the major crises facing global capitalism, and is massively rejected by the US population. This is why it acts by launching policies like a "blank slash ," seeking a success that will pull it out of the crisis. This is why, amidst these secret arrangements made between imperialist officials and officials of the Iranian religious oligarchy, US imperialism, together with the government of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, launched the bombing operation "Epic Fury," in which bombs were dropped on Tehran, Qom, Kermanshah, Isfahan, and Karaj, according to the Pentagon, targeting Iran's nuclear facilities and its ballistic missile program.

The reality is that both Mossad and the Pentagon knew about a meeting of the highest military and religious officials of the Ayatollah dictatorship, and therefore decided to attack it in order to violently decapitate the regime. The combined imperialist force simultaneously attacked several sites, assassinating numerous high-ranking Iranian officials, including the supreme religious and military leader Ali Khamenei, the Secretary of the Iranian Defense Council, Ali Shamkhani, the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), General Mohammad Pakpour, the Minister of Defense, Brigadier General Aziz Nasir Zadeh, the head of intelligence at Khatam ol Anbia Saleh Asadi, the Chief of the Supreme Leader's Military Office, Mohammad Shirazi, the President of the Defense Innovation and Research Organization (SPND), Hossein Jabal Amelian, and the former president of the SPND, Reza Mozafari Nia—a total of 40 Iranian leaders.

The criminal bombing of Iranian cities, with approximately 900 combined attacks, was intended to effectively suppress Iranian air defenses and prevent a counterattack. Despite causing immense destruction, including the attack on an Iranian primary school that killed dozens of children, the imperialist attacks failed to completely cripple Iran's military capabilities. This triggered an Iranian military counterattack, with bombs and missiles raining down on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, as well as on US military bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, and other countries in the region.Iranian ballistic missiles also struck the Ali al-Salem air base in Kuwait and the Muwaffaq al-Salti air base in Jordan, while a mass uprising erupted in Arab countries, with attacks on US consulates.

The Iranian military response, coupled with the growing mass uprisings across the Middle East, has plunged Operation Epic Fury into crisis. If Trump fails to achieve results with the bombings in the coming days, the political and social crisis in the US, and indeed throughout the Middle East, could worsen, and the entire imperialist operation could fail spectacularly. The stock market crash and the global capitalist collapse are further exacerbated by the Houthi troops governing Yemen occupying the Strait of Hormuz, as they did during the Third Intifada, thereby blocking the main access route for global oil trade. Imperialist countries, having lost control of the Red Sea, must circumnavigate Africa to trade, which automatically drives up prices because it extends the routes necessary for global crude oil supply by thousands of kilometers, and also leaves oil tankers vulnerable to Somali and other pirates.

Down with the bombings, out with imperialism, and the Ayatollahs! Long live the revolution of the Iranian people and the Middle East!

Following the death of Ali Khamenei and the top brass in Iran, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian formally assumed the role of Supreme Leader during the transition period. The Iranian constitution stipulates that the president, the head of the judiciary, and a member of the Guardian Council will assume the responsibilities of the Supreme Leader until the Assembly of Experts of Iran convenes to elect a new leader. Therefore, President Masoud Pezeshkian, Chief Justice Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, and one of the six jurists of the Guardian Council have the constitutional mandate to govern Iran. Having failed in its initial attempts to completely dismantle Iran's military capabilities, the political situation in the Middle East, and indeed the world, is heading toward a horrific prospect for imperialism. The specter of a new global Intifada has resurfaced, potentially leading to a new global wave of mobilizations that could ultimately defeat imperialism and the government of Donald Trump—a prospect that is once again gaining momentum and causing global stock markets to plummet.

Between 70% and 80% of the US population has spoken out against the war. The Islamic Resistance of Iraq, a coalition of Iraqi militias backed by Iran, carried out 16 unspecified "operations" with "dozens" of drones against "enemy" bases in Iraq and the region . Kataib Hezbollah south of Baghdad began developing resistance actions in Iraq, while Hezbollah in Lebanon began firing missiles toward Israel, anticipating a possible Israeli invasion from southern Lebanon. Palestinian militias have already declared their support for the struggle of the Arab peoples against the bombing by imperialism and Israel, thus creating a bloc of Arab militia forces to confront imperialism in the region.

Iran's bombing of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates seeks to expose the sinister role of these extremely wealthy Arab bourgeoisies of sheikhs and businessmen who are supporting Israel and the US. No social class disappears from history without a fight, and thus the Iranian Islamic oligarchy, in its grave crisis, sends missiles toward military garrisons in Arab countries whose governments have "abandoned" them and, in fact, are submitting to the imperialist attack. But the international isolation of the Trump administration and Israel is also growing; they are outright hated worldwide, since European and Japanese imperialism, as well as the capitalist sub-metropolises of India, China, and Russia, are acting as mere spectators: they do not decisively support imperialist aggression and call for "de-escalation . " It is a hypocritical and pro-imperialist policy because at the same time they neither prevent nor block imperialist aggression, which reveals the sinister and counter-revolutionary role of the UN, and all international political bodies that only serve to validate capitalism and global imperialism.

These events also eliminate 99% of the world's left and the world's charlatans who uphold the "Decoupling Theory ," claiming that China and Russia are headed for World War III against imperialism. Reality clearly shows that these theories are pure charlatanism, that there is only one imperialism in the world, desperately trying to defend the global imperialist capitalist order, and that is the United States. All current events only reaffirm that what truly exists is a global struggle between revolution and counter-revolution, and that the capitalist governments of China, Russia, and India are simply vassals of US and European imperialism. They are a counter-revolutionary front that we must confront and destroy to end capitalism.

The Stalinists and social democrats who sow hope in capitalist countries like China and Russia, or in bourgeois governments like those of Lula and Petro, or the New Popular Front in France, or Syriza, or Podemos in Spain, are irredeemable traitors. The Iranian bourgeoisie itself, sinister, retrograde, and medieval, is being destroyed by its class contradictions, which render it incapable of waging a consistent anti-imperialist struggle. This Islamic capitalist oligarchy became entangled in the web of agreements and negotiations with imperialism, which led to the deaths of its fundamentalist Islamic leaders.

Honest activists who still remain in groups that foster illusions about bourgeois and capitalist governments must immediately break with them and join the Marxist regroupment of the Marx International. From the Marx International, we promote the unity of the peoples of the Middle East, unity in global mobilization to achieve the defeat of imperialist aggression, and simultaneously, the violent overthrow of the Arab dictatorships and oligarchies that serve imperialism. Therefore, from the Marx International, we say: Down with the bombings! Out with imperialism and Israel from the Middle East! Out with the Ayatollahs of Iran! Long live the revolution of the Iranian and Middle Eastern people!