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| Volume 56 Number 7, March 7, 2026 | ARCHIVE | HOME | JBCENTRE | SUBSCRIBE |
Anti-war protesters rally outside Westminster, February
28
RCPB(ML) adds its voice to the vehement condemnation of the US/Zionist aggression against Iran. The murderous military attack launched by the US and Israel against Iran on the morning of February 28 has intensified. It is reported that already over a thousand people have been killed in Iran and the conflict has spread to an additional 14 countries in the Middle East and beyond.
Celebration in Tehran of the 47th anniversary of the
Islamic Republic, February 11 2026
RCPB(ML) expresses its deepest sympathies to the people of Iran for the loss of their people and the loss of their leader Ayatollah Khamenei who, along with his family members, was assassinated in the attacks on Tehran and other cities. We express our deepest sympathies for the families of all those killed in this and the ongoing hi-tech military attacks, including of the over 160 school girls in Minab, and the crime of bombing a maternity hospital in Tehran.
Iran has the inalienable right to self-defence. This fully includes all the targets that Iran deems to be complicit in the crimes being committed against it and its people. It is common knowledge and on the record that Iran were engaged in the serious negotiations that the US had insisted upon. They have consistently refuted the accusations that their civilian nuclear programme for energy was for the purposes of building nuclear weapons, and were demanding the lifting of US-led sanctions against the country. The negotiations had been underway since February 6. They were then sabotaged and used as a criminal deception by Israel and the US with the illegal and unprovoked military attack.
Anti-war protesters rally outside Westminster, February
28
Here in Britain it is very important to deal with the disinformation when evidence shows that recent events, when people in Iran were protesting against economic difficulties, were manipulated and organised by the secret service agencies of the US, Britain and Israel's Mossad among others. In this way these armed provocateurs were used to destabilise Iran. There are many reports from the US itself boasting that it brought on this latest crisis by deliberately devaluing the Iranian currency adding to the sanctions which precipitated these protests. RCPB(ML) condemns the real support of the British government for yet another illegal war alongside the US and Israel. Keir Starmer announced that he had accepted a US request to use its military bases to strike missile depots in Iran. He agreed to the United States' use of British bases in Britain and abroad to bomb Iran, claiming that this was limited to defensive purposes. How can taking part in a war of aggression against Iran be defensive? It is Iran which has acted to defend itself against a military offensive. Starmer added that he would send experts from Britain and Ukraine to the Gulf states to help the military shoot down Iranian drones. He tried to justify this by saying that Iran should not attack American bases in the region that are being used to attack Iran. These bases are being used to attack Iran and the US itself claims sovereignty over their bases in Britain and in the Middle East.
People of Iran mourning the death of their leader
Ayatollah Khamenei who, along with his family members, was assassinated in the
attacks on Tehran
RCPB(ML) further condemns the US action of sending a nuclear attack submarine to torpedo and sink an Iranian frigate in international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka with 180 crew members on board and consequent loss of life, the first use of a torpedo in action by the US to sink "an enemy warship", it is said, since World War II. Dan Caine, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, far from expressing regret, boasted that more than 20 Iranian vessels have been destroyed and that its navy has been "effectively neutralised". This is an indication of Trump's utilisation of extreme violence and obliteration without recourse to any international arrangements that peoples throughout the world are resisting and rejecting.
The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) calls on the working class and people to condemn Britain's involvement in this criminal bombing of Iran by the US and Israel. RCPB(ML) calls on everyone to stand with the peoples of the world against the use of force to settle conflicts between nations and condemn the threats, sabre-rattling and now military aggression of the US and Israel aimed at eliminating all opposition to their impunity in the Middle East. Their aim is to crush Iran and its government that has defended the country's sovereignty. There are no US or other foreign bases in Iran. It has been consistently anti-imperialist since the Iranian Revolution overthrew the regime of the Shah 47 years ago and stood on principle by opposing US and Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. It has acted in a principled manner to negotiate with the US to resolve differences. These are the facts. People should discuss this latest unconscionable crime and openly stand with the facts.
Condemn the US/Israeli War against Iran! Hands Off Iran!