No to the US-Israel-Islamic Republic war against the Workers

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  Abbas Goya - March 3, 2026

If we replace the formula "U.S versus the Islamic Republic” with "U.S and the Islamic Republic versus the workers,” access to the full truth becomes possible. In Iran’s political lexicon, the phrase “Guadeloupe Conference” signifies the engineering of a transfer of power over from Shah to Khomeini by the United States. Replacing the Shah with Khomeini meant that US's alternative to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) itself.

If we trace the love–hate relationship between the U.S and the IRI over the past 47 years, no fundamental change is visible. The same Jimmy Carter who eased Mohammad Reza Pahlavi out of Iran and extended support to Khomeini later lost the presidency to Ronald Reagan over the hostage crisis. The same Islamic Republic that made “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” central to its identity, cooperated with both Israel and America during the Reagan era. 

Around seven years ago, “The U.S.–Iran skirmishes and us” concluded: “The United States may launch a limited military strike against the Islamic Republic in two circumstances: (a) to destroy nuclear facilities; (b) to contain a revolution—when the imminent and decisive overthrow of the Islamic Republic by the working class becomes a real danger.” The twelve-day war exemplified the first scenario; the current military assault reflects the second. Just fifteen days after the peak of the January uprising, the U.S. dispatched a warship to the Middle East. With the outbreak of war, the first immediate consequence was the cutting short of student protests.

Regardless of the past, should workers not rise—within a war that has unfolded beyond our will—to claim political power? The very raison d’être of this war is the determination of political power. Its concrete objective is regime change designed to blunt and suppress the workers’ uprising. If our chances for meaningful action during wartime are not zero, they are perilously close to it.

Although this war appears as a dispute between states, it is not fundamentally about hegemony or the division of resources. At its core, even the Islamic Republic is not the true object of the US's war. This is inherently a class war: a convergence of the US and Israeli forces, alongside the Islamic Republic, against workers who had resolved to seize political power through their own collective will.

The immediate result of the present conflict has been the suspension of student struggles and the return of students to their homes. Alongside Trump and Israel, the Islamic Republic repeatedly urges people to remain indoors, while branding street protesters as traitors collaborating with the enemy. The current conflict is indeed a continuation of the January conflict in another form.

If the January conflict resulted in tens of thousands of dead and wounded, the ongoing military confrontation, beyond nearly a thousand dead—including some 200 young children—many more have been wounded, displaced, or financially ruined. The overwhelming majority of Iran’s population will carry long-term psychological scars.

As previously anticipated—“U.S. military mobilization aims to reshape the Islamic Republic, not to overthrow it”—Washington does not seek its collapse. Provided the war does not become protracted and attritional, the most likely scenario is a managed transformation—an opportunity the architects of this strategy do not intend to waste. The U.S and proponents of internal “reform” believe the Islamic Republic can be reengineered while society remains pacified—constructing a haven for capital accumulation and economic expansion on the backs of cheap labor.

Against this project, it is necessary to expose both sides of the bargain and to transform the anger of workers—who on Black ThuFriday paid with tens of thousands of dead, wounded, and imprisoned—into a force capable of seizing political power.

Until then, the banner we raise against the military conflict now waged against us needs to state the truth clearly:

No to the US-Israel-IRI war against the Workers


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