MPP: STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE IRANIAN PEOPLE
We hereby share a statement by the Peru People’s Movement (MPP), published on the website of the Association of the New Democracy – Germany.
Workers of the world, unite!
STATEMENT:
THE IRANIAN PEOPLE’S WAR OF NATIONAL RESISTANCE WILL DEFEAT THE IMPERIALIST-ZIONIST WAR OF AGGRESSION
YANKEES GO HOME!
On Saturday, February 28, the war of aggression waged by Yankee
imperialism and its main instrument in the Middle East region, the
Zionist State of Israel, entered a new military campaign within the
phase of the war that began with its first 12-day campaign in June 2025.
This
campaign of direct military aggression against the Islamic Republic of
Iran, which the imperialist aggressor has dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,”
has as its main political objective the capitulation of the Iranian
nation in order to subject it to imperialist domination.
As
reported by the media, the United States and Israel have been attacking
Iran since Saturday morning, resulting in the death of the country’s top
leader, Ali Khamenei.
By Sunday, the aggressors’ armed forces, according to their own information, had bombed more than 2,000 targets in Iran.
Iran stated that “the assassination of Khamenei signifies a declaration of war against Muslims.”
US
imperialism, as the principal enforcer of the global
counter-revolution, seeks to resolve the “Iran question” (its main
political objective) by pursuing regime change in the Islamic Republic
of Iran.
The Iranian question is the key issue to be resolved in
the Greater Middle East (MEE) for the plans of the sole hegemonic
superpower, US imperialism, as President Gonzalo states:
“Iran,
subjugated by the Shah, was a US stronghold; he was overthrown and a
retrograde theocratic system was imposed, controlled by Shiite Islam,
thus clashing with the superpowers USA and USSR, and with the so-called
“third Satan,” Hussein of Iraq. The US lost its stronghold in the Middle
East; Israel is very small, however much of a wedge it represents; for
this reason, it supported Iraq in its war against Iran (…) For the
imperialists, control of the Middle East is at stake.”
The
campaign for this imperialist war of aggression began with a preparatory
phase aimed at creating favorable public opinion both domestically and
internationally. This involved fabricating a narrative (Iran as a
“threat to the security of the United States and Israel due to its
development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles”) and preparing
by deploying a large military force in the region to direct the forces
of its Zionist and reactionary Arab lackeys. The concentration of
American forces is the largest since the Gulf War, with the US
repeatedly proclaiming itself “the most powerful military force on
earth” (Trump).
Since Saturday, a devastating imperialist air
bombardment by its Zionist lackeys against thousands of targets has been
underway, but it demonstrates the great capacity of the Iranian
resistance, primarily that of its people, and the difficulties the
imperialists are encountering in subduing a nation they thought would
surrender in a matter of days.
The Yankee imperialists have been
confronted with reality, as the resistance not only persists but is
growing, and the expected “popular uprising” against the regime has not
occurred and, as we can see, will not occur.
Regarding the above,
Nate Swanson, Director of the Iran Strategic Project at the Atlantic
Council in Washington, D.C., stated in an interview with the German
magazine Der Stern that, following the death of Iran’s top leader, Ali
Khamenei, this war is historically unparalleled and clarified how Iran’s
revenge might unfold—and how Donald Trump could once again end this
war. (www.stern.de)
The reaction of rival imperialists from
Russia, China, France, Germany, etc., despite their differing tones,
consisted of hypocritical calls for respect for international law and
for “peaceful solutions through diplomatic negotiations.” All of this is
aimed at undermining anti-imperialist resistance and forcing the
attacked nation to capitulate.
The genocidal Trump, the State
Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon, as well as his lackey Netanyahu,
Mossad, and the Zionist Armed Forces, dreamed of a victory. The attack
was swift but shattered by the fierce resistance and counterattack of
Iranian patriotic forces, the “Axis of Resistance” movements, and the
mass movements of the region, stretching from Pakistan to the Sahara.
The Iranian armed forces counterattacked, inflicting casualties and
destroying or seriously damaging facilities at US bases and those of
other imperialist countries in the region, which are governed by lackeys
of US imperialism.
The US imperialists seek to create a power
vacuum through the assassinations of Supreme Leader Khamenei and nearly
50 of the country’s top political and military leaders, as well as
through the bombing of civilian and military government installations,
and the country’s logistics and economy. They aim to decimate the vital
forces of national resistance. The aggressor intends to force the regime
to capitulate to all its demands and, at the same time, generate a
“popular uprising” in favor of a puppet government of US
imperialism—whether that of the deposed Shah’s son, Rerza Pahlavi, or
any other traitor. The latter would allow them to enter with their
ground forces, overthrow the national government, and install their
puppet.
REALITY AND PERSPECTIVE:
We
believe that what has been presented corresponds to the reality of what
is happening in the current armed conflict between U.S. imperialism, on
the one hand, and the oppressed nation of Iran, on the other. Therein
lies the principal contradiction, and its importance will increase
despite the prospect of intensifying collusion and struggle between
superpowers and other powers.
The imperialist-Zionist plan seeks a swift resolution; a prolonged war is not in its best interest.
A
prolonged war is advantageous to the forces of national resistance and
the entire national liberation movement in the region, allowing them to
move from weakness to strength.
This requires Iran to commit to a
firm and astute resistance aimed at generating political changes,
primarily among the Arab people, and exacerbating inter-imperialist
contradictions.
For us, this is the most convenient way to
transform national resistance into revolution, because in this armed
struggle, the heroic combatant who must lead the armed struggle of
national resistance will emerge and be forged, transforming it into a
people’s war under the leadership of their Communist Party, as part of
the revolution of new democracy.
We understand that the
anti-imperialist front in our countries is the front of the democratic
revolution based on the worker-peasant alliance led by the Communist
Party. Marxist-Leninist-Maoists do not separate the struggle against
imperialism from the struggle against semi-feudalism and bureaucratic
capitalism.
And the world anti-imperialist front to sweep
imperialism and reaction from the face of the earth through world
revolution is made up of two forces: the struggle of the national
liberation movement and the struggles of the international proletarian
movement, both led by their Communist Parties. Although for the
communists the motto is “Proletarians of all countries, unite!” , the
motto that must guide the struggle of the two forces must be
“Proletarians of all the countries and peoples of the world, unite!”
We also declare our support for the call to found the Anti-Imperialist League, and we quote the following from its call:
“The
conditions are favorable to unite the majority of the people against
the imperialists and their running dogs. We call for the foundation of
an Anti-Imperialist International Organization, the international
Anti-Imperialist League, to assume the indispensable task of forming a
world anti-imperialist front to advance the path of unifying the
majority of the people against imperialism and the reaction, serving the
People’s Wars, the national liberation struggles, and the proletarian
and popular struggles of the whole world. Let us found the International Anti-Imperialist League!“
To
conclude, a lesson that Chairman Gonzalo drew from the 1990 Gulf War,
especially for oppressed nations and primarily for the world proletarian
revolution, which must be kept in mind in the face of this uninspiring
event, is the following:
“Thus, they extol American military
power to the skies, ‘in the highest and most modern technology’; and
what does the commentary say? ‘It’s a rehash of the idea that weapons
are the most important thing, that power resides in the most modern
weapons, that weapons can do everything, that’s what they proclaim; and
it concludes: ‘When, precisely, the first great lesson we must draw from
the Gulf War is that what is most important in war is the man, the
ideology that animates him, the class that leads, the interests he
defends, and the cause he serves.’ That is the lesson of the Gulf and
what interests us as a lesson for people’s war and for unmasking
fallacies (1).”
Let us found the International Anti-Imperialist League!
Yankees out of the Greater Middle East!
Let’s support the National Resistance War of the people of Iran!
Iran and Palestine will prevail!
Peru People’s Movement
March 2026
(1) PCP, “LET STRATEGIC BALANCE SHAKE THE COUNTRY MORE!”, Peru, November 1991.