The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) expresses maximum outrage against the imperialist US government of fascist madman Donald Trump and the Zionist state of Israel of equally fascist Benjamin Netanyahu in carrying out on February 28 massive missile attacks against Iran.

The brazen military assault was unprovoked and treacherously carried out amid nuclear negotiations. Along with all revolutionary forces in the Philippines, the Party expresses solidarity with the freedom-loving people of Iran in vehemently condemning the missile attacks which are a gross assault on Iran’s sovereignty and against universally accepted international laws.

Massive strikes were carried out against Iran’s seat of government which assassinated the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other key leaders of the government. Trump carried out the murder of Khamenei on the mistaken belief that this will force the Iranian people to accept US military, economic and political dictates and give up Iran’s sovereignty. The killings, instead, are bound to further unite the Iranian people who have long resisted imperialist subjugation.

We hold Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu accountable for the great number of deaths caused by the massive strikes which were carried out on their orders. Initial reports indicate that the massive strikes resulted in the deaths of more than 200 people, including 148 people, mostly schoolgirls, after missiles struck their primary school in the coastal city of Minab. More are feared dead.

In the face of the US and Israeli military assault against its sovereignty, Iran has all the right to defend itself by carrying out counterstrikes against Israeli military facilities and US military bases and aircraft carriers, especially in the Middle East. The escalation of armed conflicts in the region is a direct result of US imperialist intervention and military hegemonism.

The joint military assault clearly aims to force the people of Iran to bow to US imperialist demands for them to give up their sovereignty, and their national control of oil and other mineral resources. Because Iran has asserted its national sovereignty and supported other forces who resist American imperialism, the US has long aimed to subdue the country in order to establish its unchallenged hegemony in the Middle East.

This is the latest act of military aggression by the US imperialists. Facing a prolonged economic crisis and heightening competition, the US monopoly capitalists are pushing to seize control of more sources of oil and critical minerals, as well as global spheres to dump their surplus commodities. It is within the same context that, less than two months ago, the US imperialists carried out an assault against Venezuela and abducted its leader Nicolas Maduro along with wife Cilia Flores, in an barefaced attempt to take control of the country’s oil resources.

This was followed by Trump’s orders for the US military forces to seize oil tankers from Venezuela, heightened economic sanctions and attempts to subvert Cuba, threats against Mexico, Colombia and other Latin American countries who oppose Trump’s revival of the Monroe Doctrine, open declarations of seizing Greenland, undermining of the United Nations and other acts of unilateralism. All these expose the utter hypocrisy of the so-called “rules-based order.” The US continues to connive with Israel to impose its hegemonic aims against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The US continues to set its crosshairs in Asia, with unabated attempts to incite Taiwan to declare independence, and using the Philippines to stockpile weapons, station American troops, and mount war exercises, all directed to heighten military tensions with China.

The Party calls on the Filipino people, including migrant workers in the Middle East, to stand with the people of Iran as they resist US military assaults, and fight to defend their sovereignty against attempts to subjugate them. We urge all patriotic and anti-imperialist forces to stand firm to oppose US military aggression around the world, and stop it from waging more wars in the name of American interests.

In the face of threats of being dragged into a US-instigated war, there is great urgency for the Filipino people to build a broad united front against US war provocations, and heighten their demand for the US and Philippine governments to dismantle all US military bases and facilities in the Philippines, remove US missiles and other weapons of war stockpiled in secret locations in the country, pull out all US troops in the country, and withdraw US naval presence in the West Philippine Sea and the South China Sea. They must amplify their demand to abrogate the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and all lopsided military treaties with the US and push for an independent foreign policy.

They must build international solidarity with the people of South Korea and Japan where people are also demanding that they be liberated from American military presence, as well as with peoples around the world demanding an end to the US war machine.

There is great urgency for the working class and revolutionary proletariat across the world to unite and lead all democratic and anti-imperialist forces in fighting imperialism and its threats of war. They must lead the revolutionary struggles in all countries to wage revolutionary wars to fight for national liberation and socialism, as key in the struggle to end imperialist wars and attain genuine global peace.

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