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Iran fake [comment by MIM International Minister] Maoists Hit Islamic Regime's "Nuclear Posturing"
Note to our readers: This article appeared on p. 11 of last week's print issue
of Revolution with significant typographical errors in the final two
paragraphs. The errors were our responsibility; they were not in the original
article in Hagighat, publication of the Communist Party of Iran
(Marxist-Leninist-Maoist), or in the abridged version distributed by A World to
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May 1, 2006. A World To Win News Service. The following article, originally
entitled "The Islamic Republic is indulging in nuclear posturing and leaving
the people defenceless in the face of great dangers," is abridged from the
April issue (no. 27) of Hagighat, publication of the Communist Party of Iran
(Marxist-Leninist-Maoist).
With the false swagger of champion puppets, the heads of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) have announced that they have joined the nuclear powers club. Their posturing is even shallower and more hated than that of the ex-shah who used to inject phony "national pride" into his veins and the veins of the people by parading the F16 fighter planes he acquired from the U.S. and the tanks purchased from the UK.
International Minister of MIM comments for MIM: Here the cat is let out of the bag: the imperialists and their lackeys attack Iran's military preparations and the nationalism of the oppressed nations against the imperialists.At the Friday prayers, with lots of noise but without any shame, the ayatollahs proclaimed that Iran's new status as a "nuclear power" should be celebrated as a patriotic holiday and demanded that the people'shearts be filled with "national pride." However, the majority of the people who have suffered under a medieval religious regime for 27 years are not inspired to feel any national pride by this. In fact, now their pride has been trampled upon even more by the reactionary mullahs. This posturing was more comic than that of Pakistan'sgenerals. The people make fun of the mullahs and Western nuclear analysts ridicule them.
Two days after this announcement, The New York Times wrote that Western nuclear analysts believe that Iran lacks the necessary skills, materials, and tools to come close to achieving their nuclear desires. "Nothing has changed to alter current estimate of when Iran might be able to make a single nuclear weapon, assuming that is its ultimate goal. The United States government has put that at 5 to 10 years and some analysts have said it could come as late as 2020." (April 13, 2006) This newspaper quoted David Albright, the head of the Institute of Science and International Security in Washington who is following Iran'snuclear program: "They have a long way to go."
International Minister of MIM: Here the Iranian branch of the RCP=U$A Comintern lets it be known that the New York Times is a reliable outlet on questions of nuclear weapons and conveniently forgets that it was the same paper that reported on Saddam Hussein's centrifuges--stories by Judith Miller about weapons of mass destruction now admitted to have been false and based on a kiss-ass relationship with the Pentagon.However, the Bush government seized the opportunity and demanded that the world's powers punish Iran. The options put on the table by the U.S. range from economic sanctions to bombardment.
International Minister of MIM comments: Here the stooges of imperialism crudely echo u.$. imperialism in its threats, right down to the language of diplomacy. Does it get more obvious than that?The real reason for the Islamic Republic's rush to proclaim itself a "nuclear power" is that the regime is worried about its own survival. They have adopted a policy of seeking to accelerate a confrontation with the U.S. based on relying on Russia and China. Western journalist Michael Slackman reported in mid-March from Tehran: "When [Iranian Prime Minister] Ahmadinejad took office, he embraced a decision already made by the top leadership to move toward confrontation with the West about the nuclear program. . . But one political scientist who speaks regularly with members of the Foreign Ministry said that Iran had hinged much of its strategy on winning Russia's support. . . The political scientist said some negotiators believed that by being hostile to the West they would be able to entice Moscow into making Tehran its stronghold in the Middle East. 'They thought the turn east was the way forward,' the person said. 'That was a belief and a vision.'" NYT , 15 March 2006)
The heads of the IRI think that their nuclear policy can serve several goals: to silence the people, cool down the differences within the regime, and find new international friends.
Regarding the people, this policy is an absurd effort to boost "Iranian national pride" in the hope that they would temporarily stop thinking about the regime'scrimes and plunder. Regarding the ranks of the regime, the point is to unite the different factions around a plan for survival. And regarding the U.S. and European imperialists, their aim is to provoke the U.S. to accelerate an attack on Iran. These reactionaries are counting on the religious sentiments of the Muslims of the Middle East and inside Iran. They hope that when the shocked and bombarded people have to collect their loved ones' bodies, that will give the regime a chance to survive--an opportunity that the people will have to pay for with tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands killed.
[International Minister of MIM replies: Here the new aspiring section of the 4th International called the "RIM" (which stole our name) echoes Khruschev in advocating pacifism for oppressed nations. The Iranian branch of the RCP=U$A is here indicating that it will stand with the u.$. imperialists during an attack on Iran.]Regarding the regime'spolicy towards the powers competing with the U.S., the regime's aim is to separate Russia and China from the U.S. and Europe, following their "East versus West" strategy. So far they have been the lackeys of the Western imperialist capitalists. Now that the West does not want them any more, they have to sell themselves on the world market to another master, and they are hoping for Russian and Chinese buyers.
International Minister for MIM: In other words, the u.$. imperialists cannot forgive the mullahs, but they have to admit that the mullahs are playing off the imperialists against each other, just as they should.]Censuring News That Threatens the People
There is no limit to the regime's hostility toward the people. Every single International Minister of MIM replies: This is anarchism equating all governments and therefore obliterating class analysis and Mao's concept of principal enemy and principal contradiction. individual in it is worried only about their own political and economic class interests and not the interests of the people and the "national interest." These reactionaries forced the Iranian media to censor the news that the Iran dossier was referred to the UN Security Council. They want to hide the dangerousness of the situation from the people. But even more criminal is the censorship of the news about U.S. military plans to bomb Iran and the possible use of the nuclear weapon in this attack.
[International Minister of MIM: The people to hide this are your fraternal comrades in the RCP=U$A who spent International Wimmin's Day ONLY demonstrating against Iran, just as Bush and Rice ordered.]The Islamic regime's media takes every opportunity to expose U.S. crimes in all corners of the world, but when it comes to American preparations to attack International Minister for MIM replies: Here the u.$. imperialists and their stooges make a valuable admission, that Iran is exposing u.$. imperialism globally, an action that mobilizes genuine proletarians but not labor aristocracies. Iran, they just shut up! They make a deafening noise about their own war games involving a few boats in the Gulf, but they hide the reports published everywhere else in the world about U.S. military exercises in the Gulf to practice aerial bombing runs on Iran. The question of a nuclear attack on Iran is so serious that it has given rise to intense differences among U.S. military forces and some high-ranking American army officers have threatened to resign. But the IRI has maintained silence on this matter.
International Minister replies: This is an obvious lie that will not fly with the Iranian people. The Iranian regime has publicly declaimed the threats and said they are not serious. They have not given the threats the silent treatment, but instead have chosen to ridicule the threats. By the way, Mao referred to nuclear weapons as "paper tigers." The RCP=U$A lackeys underestimate the role of the people in warfare.In his extensive exposure of U.S. planning and preparations to attack Iran, the well-known U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh quotes a Pentagon military affairs adviser as saying the Bush government'sserious consideration of using nuclear weapons for this purpose is the result of the more general re-emergence of the policy of using tactical nuclear weapons among the American military and U.S. government policy makers. ( The New Yorker , April 17, 2006). That means the nuclear option is not limited to Iran but is a much broader matter.
International Minister of MIM replies: Here the U.$. lackeys have two confused goals. One is to cover up their previous apathy toward an attack on Iran by u.$. imperialism. Their allies in the u$A were busy demonstrating for Phyllis Chesler's right to wear a bikini in Afghanistan while U.$. troops were LANDING in Iran. The second goal is diffuse their own blame for this matter by saying that Uncle $am threatens everyone. This is crude and clumsy especially given that the lackeys just got done giving back-handed credit to the theocratic regime that it exposes u.$. imperialism everywhere.The nuclear powers--the U.S., UK, France, Russia, and China--are threatened by each other, not by Iran. Iran is an excuse for their efforts to recast the International Minister for MIM replies: This is outrageous eclecticism. So now the principal contradiction in the world is among the imperialists, even when they are about to attack Iran?!!! These clowns should try to cover their act better. They should have at least given a position paper on how intra-imperialist contradictions are principal in the world, not the contradiction between oppressed nations and imperialism. There will be no real Maoists who join them world imperialist system through destruction and death. U.S. nuclear weapons are not aimed primarily at Iran but Russia (despite the end of the cold war era) and France. In his State of the Union speech two years ago and again this year, George Bush referred to the policy of the "pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons." A few months ago, French President Jacques Chirac--in the name of threatening Iran--announced that France is prepared to use its nuclear weapons pre-emptively. The powerful capitalist countries will not hesitate to commit crimes against humanity. They would do anything in the interests of capital. They believe they have more freedom in relation to Iran, since the regime there is extremely reactionary and extremely hated by the Iranian people.
The U.S. government and their military and intelligence experts know perfectly well that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not have a single nuclear bomb and will not for some time to come. Just as they had to justify their attack on Iraq with lies about Saddam Hussein's supposed WMD, they are doing the same about Iran. But the difference between Iraq and Iran is that the heads of the IRI themselves boast that they will possess nuclear bomb shortly and then they will threaten Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the West. This is a bluff. Bush, who believes that he is on a mission from God, is confronting fellow religious lunatics in Iran. Hersh writes that a high-ranking diplomat in Vienna told him, "All of the inspectors are angry at being misled by the Iranians, and some think the Iranian leadership are nutcases—one hundred per cent totally certified nuts." He added that "[International Atomic Energy Agency head] ElBaradei's overriding concern is that the Iranian leaders 'want confrontation, just like the neocons on the other side'--in Washington."
International Minister replies: First these alleged Iranian Maoists quote the bourgeoisie known as diplomats and inspectors--spies--as reliable sources on geopolitics. Then they EQUATE the Iranian regime with the imperialists. This is utterly un-Maoist.Who can protect the people and their interests? Only the people can! We have a regime that cannot protect us against foreign aggression and worse, wants to turn the people into cannon fodder for its own reactionary interests. This International Minister replies: Again this is preaching pacifism to the oppressed. The Third World people are not cannon fodder for fighting U.$. imperialism! Iran is NOT an imperialist country, but everything the reactionary scum called RIM says is about Iran as if it were an imperialist country. Anti-militarism is the strategy for INSIDE IMPERIALIST countries, NOT Iran! Kurds and Armenians are NOT Blacks inside Iran, not according to Maoism! The Kurds, Armenians and Iranians share a common interest in freeing themselves from the yoke of imperialism, much as the RIM parties like to deny the extent of super-exploitation! regime is a big barrier in the way of the people, hindering their becoming alert to the danger and starting to protect themselves and their children from U.S. military attack. This regime must be overthrown as soon as possible so that the people can unite and prevent this crime.
When we start rising up in Iran, all the military and economic plans that are
prepared against the people of Iran will be thrown into disarray. The world's
people will rush to help us, TRANSLATION BY MIM: U$ TROOPS
WILL LAND AND HELP US AND THEY ALREADY HAVE and if the imperialists commit crimes against
International Minister replies for MIM: Here is Trotsky's
f*ing permanent revolution again! They are announcing that they are going to
treat Iran as an imperialist country and wait for white workers to come save the
people of Iran! In contrast, Mao coordinated his military plans with
Chiang Kai-shek. He did not promise to disorganize China's military in the face
of Japan's invasion!!!
Iran, the people of those countries will support us and our revolution. We
should not fear the possibility that many of the people of the Middle East may
be blinded by emotion and sympathize with the Islamic regime. We must make them
aware that the interests of the people of the Middle East will not be fulfilled
by the phony, self-styled "anti-American" Islamists nor by the so-called
civilized imperialists. To be shocked by the enormity of the situation and wish
it were not real is not a wise and an intelligent approach. The Islamic regime
is the biggest barrier to the unity and sensible preparation of the people of
Iran to defend themselves. It must be overthrown.