The joint attack of Israel and the USA against Iran on the 28th of February 2026 is what comes next after the so-called “12-day war” of June 2025, when Israel attacked Iran with the help of the USA. In that phase of the war, the Zionist regime attacked, thus escalating the situation and limiting whatever scenario of “mild” resolution to the open issues concerning the Iranian state such as its nuclear program. The June war actually formed the terms and the political context to prepare and set off the current “episode”, which includes the greatest part of the ambitions of the American-Israeli coalition. Under the doctrine of “precautionary war”, which has been announced since the beginning of 2025 by the Israeli state claiming a sort of justification for its military operations in the name of calculated (and not manifested) dangers and threats.
The war that sparked on 28/2, attempts to form a new geopolitical geography in the broader area of the Middle East. At the top of their priorities lies to overthrow the Iranian regime, so that the danger for Israel coming from its neighboring states can be completely eliminated. Not long ago Iran was the pillar of the so-called “axis of resistance” against the aims of Israel and the USA. Apart from that common goal, the two ally states could establish their interests in the broader area since the Arab states (on various levels) have made agreements with Israel (bearing at the same time a close cooperation with the USA) and practically submit to its pursuits.
The current war against Iran and simultaneously the military attack in Lebanon against the pro-Iranian Hezbollah may be the the most important link in the chain of acts of aggression on the part of Israel in the last two and a half years in the broader area. During this time the Zionist regime has unleashed war operations of a police style in Lebanon, in Iran, in Syria and Yemen, along with the genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where Israel has occupied 52% and 83% of the two areas respectively. At the same time, by invading Lebanon and with the pretext of the demilitarization in the southern part of the Lebanese region, Israel is actually expanding its northern borders. An equivalent occupation of land had taken place earlier in south Syria.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.
This new war operation against Iran is a crucial moment, since, what is clear is that any rhetoric of claiming international law has been abandoned once and for all, and what dominates is power. The Israeli state has claimed from the very beginning that it wants to swiftly eliminate the danger of Iran while the USA quickly abandoned the rhetoric of “danger from the Iranian nuclear program” (which they had supposedly destroyed during the summer warfare as they were then celebrating) and started to speak afresh with the old and well-known language of “anti”-terrorism and security. What is not an accident is that they both systematically refer to Iran as the “trouble-state” which exports terrorism not only to the Middle East but also to the whole world.
In this exact context the war against Iran seeks to reshape the access to the rich power resources in the area and to revive the situation when the USA, through the coup of the previous regime of the Shah in 1953, practically controlled the Iranian oil reserves before the change that was brought about by the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the subsequent establishment of the Shia theocratic regime. In this way and with a more long-term international aim, the USA pursue to inflict commercial and financial damage on the Chinese state which was supplied with 80% of the oil of Venezuela before the attack of the USA and “police-like” operation to arrest its president Maduro. In this way the USA are trying to gain advantage against the Chinese state which they deem as their main competitor on the planet.
At the same time international political goals are also being served. Overthrowing the regime in Iran will be another example of US goals expressed by their highest officials (from the Secretary of State Rubio at the recent UN security council up to the constant addresses by Trump). These goals signify total submission to the NATO commands under the leadership of the USA. In the same sense lies the ideological imposition of the supremacy of the white western human type and the enforcement and “exporting” of the western cultural and state model.
This new phase of the war in Iran comes after the recent uprising of a great part of the Iranian population against the local theocratic regime. An uprising which was first set off due to the particularly harsh financial conditions caused by the enforcement of financial sanctions from abroad, following previous expanded struggles and uprisings. The sanctions are a political tool of a war type, which is inflicted not only on a state and its national economy but also on the social base itself, making the population impoverished, and it can even overthrow regimes. The same thing happened in Venezuela and is about to happen in Cuba. The uprising in Iran quickly gained broader characteristics, anti-regime content and the main position that was expressed by the biggest part of the rioters was against both the oppressive regime and the American-Israel “liberators.” This uprising was suppressed by the Iranian state through an unprecedented slaughter and thousands were killed. What is clear is that the voices defending the rioters from the west (particularly the USA) are only just a pretext and their discourse about “freedom” is a dead letter. Authorities (internal and external alike) are not interested in the populations and their demands, but only take advantage of any situation to their benefit. The history of the US intervention in Iran, since the 1950s until today, has shown just that.
Continuing the argument above, what must be made absolutely clear is that the Iranian regime has nothing to do with the people’s freedom, even if it fights western interests and is the enemy of those who attack. Even though an imperialist intervention is taking place by the USA-Israel alliance, being against it bears no liberational content if it revolves around a mere anti-imperialist perspective. Opposing war and the military attack against Iran does not mean defending the regime in power but it means being against states and their alliances in total with the view to both individual and social liberation.
The war is everywhere, our enemy is right here
In all this situation the Greek state is neither inactive nor “neutral” as it claims to be. It is an active participant in this war as well, with the orientation of strengthening its status and serving its own interests. The Greek state is an outright participant by providing its NATO bases which spread throughout the Greek region, by distributing weapons and military equipment and by mobilizing its troops outside its borders (yes, Cyprus is abroad as much as Greek nationalism may claim the opposite). At the same time, it attempts to create a fait accompli concerning the so-call “Greek-Turkish antagonism” by placing series of Patriot rockets on the island of Karpathos, when the Turkish state, on the basis of its own nationalist politics and pursuits, demands the demilitarization of the islands of the Aegean Sea. Internally, the Greek state is constantly trying to boost nationalism, militarism and patriarchy in order to subdue the population. In that exact direction (besides the Greek-Cypriot-Israeli coalition on a central level) it can be seen in public discourse that the “state of Israel and its people” is continually praised by officials, army officers, military analysts and journalists, in the sense that it has been fighting for decades and it has been an example of constant fighting readiness to face a permanent state of emergency. We, on our part, will keep putting forward being national traitors against the Greek state and national armies.
We neither stand with the cops of the planet nor with any local despotism. Neither with the USA-Israel nor with the Mullahs. Always against the states and the bosses. Always on the side of the oppressed, the rebels, the rioters and the struggling people. We are not in line with the state and its national interests. We do not bow to militarism and its ideals. We must not only stand against the war, but also against the general condition of the Greek (not only) state preparing for war. Against the dire reality of capitalist “peace.”
Be the internal enemy.
Solidarity to those affected by the warfare and to those who are against the war.
Neither national, nor religious, our war is class war.
Deserters in their war, saboteurs in their peace.
Anarchists’ assembly against the self-evident foundations of the power regime