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You Don’t Have to Support Iran

But you should stop supporting a system that bombs countries in the name of “freedom.”

We need to get the record straight here, okay? And this is my thought about this conflict, or this war, between the United States, Israel, and Iran.

Let’s be clear. First of all, I do not support the Iranian government. I don’t. It is a religious state. It has its own serious internal political issues.

But that reality does not give the United States the right to attack this country. And you need to get your mind straight on that. Iran’s internal problems belong to the Iranian people. External bombs do not solve that. They replace one form of control with another.

You have to look at what’s really happening right now. Trump is not talking about reform or negotiation. He’s threatening infrastructure, energy routes, and national systems. That tells you everything. This is not a humanitarian mission. This war is not for the Iranian people. This is power projection.

First, you have to understand this, right? Then we have to talk about why the United States is doing this, because it wants control over the region, control over the strategic routes, and to maintain its position in the global order. And that is the logic of this war.

All this happens because we have this military-industrial complex, that’s one structure, and we have the Israel lobby, the Zionist lobby, that’s another condition. When these line up, it becomes very easy to end up with the American imperialist mindset inside Congress, inside the White House, and inside the minds of politicians. And when all three of these conditions line up, it becomes very easy to start a war on foreign soil.

If you are watching this video in the United States, you should understand this: any force that limits the ability of the American empire to wage war without consequences exposes the weakness of the imperial machine, and that matters for ordinary Americans, too. It is part of the fight to destroy the American imperialist military complex. Ultimately, in the long run, that might just benefit you, the people of the United States, the working-class people.

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