Why is the US Government
at WAR with Iran?
The WAR with Iran is all about Private Property
It’s not the Oil, it’s Who Owns the Oil
“Why is the US Government at War with Iran?”
Nobody seems to be able to answer this question. No one wants to talk about a war that actually began 75 years ago, right after the election of Mohammad Mosaddegh as the Prime Minister of Iran.
In 1951, Mosaddegh nationalized the Iranian Oil Industry.
This gives control of this resource and the wealth it creates to the Iranian people. This ended the robbery of the Iranian people by the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP), and weakened BP’s chosen leader, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahavi, the Shah.
Two years later, the US and Britain counterattacked, overthrew Mosaddegh, and put the Shah back in power. It looked like order had been restored, although BP now had to share the wealth with Exxon, Mobil, Standard Oil of California, Texaco, and Gulf Oil. This step marked the US taking control of global petroleum as a weapon to dominate the world.
The oil companies put the Shah back in power and paid him to keep the Iranian people in check and to keep the oil flowing. The majority of the Iranian people remained poor, a small westernized middle class developed, the Shah and his cronies became rich, and the oil companies made money.
In 1979, the Iranian people took back their Country and their Oil.
The 25-year reign of the Shah was brutal. The majority of the Iranian people remained poor, a small westernized middle class developed, the Shah and his cronies became rich, and the oil companies made money. The Shah ruled by force and terror.
In 1979, the Iranian people took back their country and their oil. They overthrew the Shah and established an Islamic republic with Ruhollah Khomeini as the supreme leader. The US, Britain, and France initially supported Khomeini and the new religious dictatorship. But instead of keeping the money flowing to the oil companies, the Iranian government nationalized the oil industry, took control of all production, refining, and exports of oil, and canceled all foreign concessions.
Since the Islamic Revolution wouldn’t play ball, the US and Britain used Saddam Hussein to attack Iran, beginning the Iran-Iraq war that lasted 8 years from 1980 to 1988. The US military attacked Iran in 1987 and 1988, including Operation Praying Mantis in the Strait of Hormuz.
When the Iran-Iraq war did not destroy Iran, the US attacked using economic sanctions and isolation. But this has not worked. So, the US is back to bombing Iran and may soon invade the country.
The US government’s war against Iran is not about the oil itself, but the idea that wealth created by the oil can be owned by the people of Iran and not by a small elite. The US government’s war against Iran is not about the oil itself, but the idea that wealth created by oil or minerals or agricultural goods can be owned by the people and not by a small elite.
The Public Ownership of Iran’s Oil threatens the very core of Capitalism – Private Property.
Capitalism is a societal relationship between the working-class, the 99%, who must sell their capacity to work to live, and the capitalist-class, the 1%, who own AI, the media, factories, banks, mines, oil wells, etc. Like the Shah, the US government works for the 1% and protects their interests.
Working-Class WAR
We, the working people of the world, are at war with the capitalist class. It is a fight between those of us who supply the collective labor that produces wealth and the private owners who steal that wealth.
It is a Fight for Working Class Democracy where the wealth of our planet is used to provide everyone with what they need to live a healthy and productive life, a just and peaceful world based on cooperation.
The American people and the Iranian people are fighting for the same future.
We, the American people, must stop the WAR on Iran and prevent the War on Cuba, not only because it is the right thing to do but because ANYTHING THAT SRENGTHENS OUR ENEMY WEAKENS US.
We can do this, we must do this!
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