The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) condemns the violent, provocative, and imperialist airstrike launched by the apartheid state of Israel on the sovereign territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This reckless assault has resulted in the deaths of civilians, military officials, and scientists, and marks yet another attempt by Israel to ignite full-scale war in the Middle East, with the full backing of its genocidal allies, the United States, Britain, and several other European states.
The EFF reaffirms Iran’s legitimate and inalienable right to defend itself. No sovereign nation can be expected to sit in silence while its people are murdered and its security infrastructure destroyed. We further affirm Iran’s right to develop its own nuclear deterrent capacity, free from the coercion and double standards of the United States and Israel. While the United States have distanced themselves from this attack we cannot overlook their funding of weapons to Israel and their use of Israel as a proxy to maintain imperialism through instability in the Middle East. These nations arrogantly believe that nuclear power should remain their exclusive preserve to wage war, colonise, and commit genocide without fear of retaliation.
This attack forms part of a long history of criminal aggression. Iran has shown remarkable restraint in the face of repeated provocations and unlawful assassinations by the United States and Israel. From the cold-blooded drone murder of General Qassem Soleimani in 2020, the killings of top Nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh also in 2020, Colonel Sayad Khoyadee in 2022; while in 2024 Israel killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, among many others.
Iran has absorbed blow after blow, even while the world looked away. And in this latest strike Israel has once again murdered General Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s top military commander and head of the country’s armed forces, and his deputy commander Gholamali Rashid.
Now Israel, the clear aggressor, seeks to provoke a wider conflict under the false pretext of “self-defence,” claiming existential threat from Iran’s nuclear programme while it possesses a covert and unregulated arsenal of nuclear weapons. This is the height of hypocrisy. The truth is that Israel, emboldened by the United States does not fear Iranian weapons, it fears a Middle East that can no longer be bullied, occupied, or bombed with impunity.
The EFF reiterates our call for the total isolation of the apartheid state of Israel. Israel has already been found culpable of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, and its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stands accused of orchestrating a genocide in Gaza. His latest crime against Iran is a continuation of this pattern, which is a desperate attempt to distract the world from the ongoing extermination of Palestinians, the destruction of Gaza, and Israel’s broader settler-colonial ambitions.
The EFF will always stand with the oppressed against the oppressor, with the colonised against the coloniser, and with the people of the world who demand justice, not imperial control. We therefore encourage Iran to take any action that is necessary for them to defend their sovereignty, whatever form it takes.
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