The
deranged actions of Donald Trump threaten to plunge the entire Middle East into
flames. The assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, whom the Iraqis
say was lured into an American trap in Baghdad, has led to inevitable Iranian
reprisals against the US military presence in Iraq.
Trump didn’t bother to tell Britain or his
other European allies that he had ordered Soleimani’s death although he did,
apparently, inform the Israelis. That’s not surprising because the US war-lord
takes all his European NATO allies for granted and he knows he can always count
on the grovelling support of the Johnson government.
Appeasing the USA is second nature for the
Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and indeed many of the Blairite dregs in
the Parliamentary Labour Party. The Labour leader, however, has publicly
condemned Trump’s criminal actions.
Jeremy Corbyn said: “The US assassination
of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani is an extremely serious and dangerous
escalation of conflict in the Middle East with global significance.” And in
parliament Corbyn asked how the assassination was justified under international
law.
The mealy-mouthed answer from the Defence
Secretary was simply to repeat the nonsense coming from the White House.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: “From
the information and intelligence I have seen it is clear that there is a case
for self-defence to be made, about an individual [Soleimani] who had come to
Iraq to co-ordinate murder and attacks on US citizens,” whilst Corbyn’s
comments were dismissed as “anti-America, anti-imperialistic guff” and the
“usual tripe”.
Trump’s troops prop up the feudal Arab
princes who do the USA’s bidding in return for a slice of the oil profits that
rightly belong to the Arab masses. Trump’s administration continues to support
the feudal Saudi king’s war in Yemen that has cost tens of thousands of lives
and brought the country to the brink of the worst famine it’s seen in 100
years.
Trump destroyed all hopes for peace in the
Middle East when he tore up the nuclear deal with Iran and told the Palestinian
Arabs to accept his worthless “deal of the century” that gives the Zionists
everything they want. Now he’s taken the region to the brink of a new war that
imperialism can never win.
Last year communist and workers’ parties,
including the New Communist Party of Britain (NCP), “condemned the US
administration and its hawkish representatives such as Mike Pompeo and John Bolton
for initiating the rising tension and threats of military action on Iran, as
well as the use of economic sanctions as a means of starving the people of Iran
into submission. They further believe that these actions are having a
disastrous impact upon the continuing struggle of the Iranian people for peace,
sovereignty and social justice, as well as for human and democratic rights.
“The aim of US policy regarding Iran is to
secure the undisputed domination of US imperialism and its allies in the
region. The actions and policies of the US administration on Iran have been and
continue to be co-ordinated with those of the governments of Israel and Saudi
Arabia…the future of Iran and its political system is a matter that should be
determined by the Iranian people and them alone. The communist and workers
parties, together with all progressive forces in Iran, reject foreign
intervention in their country under any pretext.
“They call on all forces campaigning for
peace and disarmament globally to condemn the US administration and its Saudi
and Israeli allies’ politics of confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran
in contravention of the UN Charter. No to Sanctions and No to War on Iran!”
