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Iran Maoists: �Overthrow the Islamic Republic, confront US aggression�
28 March 2005. A World to Win News Service. The following is an abridged
article from the March issue (no. 21) of Haghighat, the publication of the
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist). Recently George Bush and his
secretary of state announced that military operations against Iran are not on
the agenda. But the US has started carrying out secret military operations
inside Iran�s borders. What are the US aims in Iran? How will it apply its
plan? And what is to be done?
The US seeks direct control of the political situation in Iran and
unconditional access to its resources and the labour of its people. The US has
no intention to free the people of Iran, or develop Iran�s economy, or create a
federal government for the Kurds, or ensure the equality of men and women, or
end imprisonment and torture, or ensure freedom of the press and the media.
None of these are part of the US aims and policies in Iran. These claims are
just a bunch of lies, propaganda to justify intervention.
In order to legitimise its intervention, the US pretends that its purpose in
seeking �regime change� in Iran is to bring democracy. No intelligent person
can believe that after establishing its control in Iraq the US would allow a
democratic system. This is not possible and history has never witnessed such a
thing. [Editor�s note: Here what is meant is not just the form of elections but
truly liberating the people. Nevertheless, keep in mind that the US overthrew
Iran�s only elected government, in 1953.]
The US plan for regime change in Iran has three dimensions: Full-scale
military operations, secret commando operations and political operations. The
US may not fully implement all three aspects at once, but in any case all are
part of an overall plan.
Full-scale military aggression
In October 2004 George Bush approved the Pentagon�s military plan against
Iran. Implementation is due to begin this coming summer, according to Scott
Ritter, an ex-US Marines officer and former senior UN weapons inspector in
Iraq. In a 19 February speech in Washington, he said that according to secret
information given to him by a reliable source within the US government, Bush
has approved military operations in Iran beginning in June! That doesn�t mean
that this operation will necessarily take place then, but when military
planners put forward a date, even tentatively, this is serious!
Seymour Hersh, a well-known and influential journalist, has published a
comprehensive report of US military aims and operations in Iran. The report is
based on information that he received from a former US high-ranking security
official. Hersh wrote in The New Yorker magazine (January 2005) that the
official told him, �This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one
campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this [the Middle East] as a
huge war zone.� Hersh reports that the Pentagon has made changes in its
previous master military plan against Iran because with the occupation of
Afghanistan and Iraq the military geography of the Middle East has changed. The
US can now use these countries and its new military bases in the Central Asian
republics as well as its naval bases and armada of ships stationed in the Gulf
to mount a broad military assault against Iran. Some analysts say the US may
launch only part of this attack and invade only part of southern Iran. For this
it
would use the massive naval power it assembled in the Gulf during the invasion
of Iraq, which was mainly on standby at that time.
Secret operations
How much of this broad plan will be put into action and when is not clear yet.
But the US has already begun secret operations. American and Israeli commando
teams have crossed into Iran in order to �prepare the battlefield�, as they put
it. Hersh writes, �The President has signed� orders authorising secret commando
groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against
suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and
South Asia.� He continues, �The Administration has been conducting secret
reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since last summer. Much of the
focus is on the accumulation of intelligence and targeting information on
Iranian nuclear, chemical, and missile sites� The goal is to identify and
isolate three dozen, and perhaps more, such targets that could be destroyed by
precision strikes and short-term commando raids.�
Hersh says that a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon told
him, �The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of
the military infrastructure as possible.� A former high-level intelligence
official told Hersh, �It�s not if we�re going to do anything against Iran.
They�re doing it.�
Hersh writes that these operations are being carried out in close cooperation
with US and Pakistani special task forces using the Afghanistan border to
penetrate into Iran. There is also close cooperation between US and Israelis
forces. The officials Hersh spoke to for this article kept that a secret, but
Hersh has detailed Israeli commando operations in Kurdistan in a previous New
Yorker article.
The greater part of these secret operations involves setting up �operational
teams� in the �target� countries. It is crucial for revolutionaries to know
about this aspect of US plans. These teams are to consist of local forces
carrying out operations under the supervision of US officers. Part of their
task is to carry out assassinations, including of opposition figures.
Explaining who and what kind of people are forming these teams, a former
high-level intelligence official told Hersh: �The new rules will enable the
Special Forces community to set up what it calls �action teams� in the target
countries overseas which can be used to find and eliminate terrorist
organisations. Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?
�We founded them and we financed them� The objective now is to recruit locals
in any area we want. �We�re going to be riding with the bad boys.�
This is the nature of the kind of �freedom� and �democracy� the US wants to
bestow on the �target� countries. Death squads plus ballot boxes! The Iranian
people have already experienced this kind of �democracy� for 26 years!
Political operations
Three years ago Bush labelled Iran, Iraq and North Korea the �axis of evil�.
Since then the US has been politically preparing for direct military and
political intervention in Iran. An important part of these preparations is to
divide the Islamic Republic and win over part of the regime�s members, along
with some of the opposition forces within the Islamic Republic, and unite them
with monarchist elements, paving the way for military, security and political
cooperation between these forces and the Pentagon. Even the Mujaheddin Khalq
Organisation is part of this whole operation, despite the fact that the US has
put them on its so-called terrorist list.
The US�s political operations are meant to pursue two aims simultaneously: to
destabilise the Islamic Republic and prepare the regime that they want to
replace it with.
According to some US news sources, discussions are still going on within
various US ruling class circles about the extent of this �regime change� and
the methods to bring it about. An example of these discussions is the plan
recently published by the �Committee on the Present Danger�.
This committee consists of some influential Republicans. Its co-chairman is
George Shultz, Secretary of State during the Reagan years. Shultz�s son is a
business partner of Mohsen Rafsanjani [the son of Akbar Rafsanjani, the
influential Iranian Mullah and ex-president of Iran] and has close relations
with the Rafsanjani family. The plan of this �committee� calls for the removal
of the Islamic Republic�s �Supreme Leader� Ali Khamenei [Ayatollah Khomeini�s
successor]. The authors of this document say that by implementing this plan
perhaps they can remove Khamenei peacefully and �democratise� Iran just like
Indonesia and Chile [two countries where the US overthrew elected governments
and instituted fascist military dictatorships]. This document targets Khamenei
and his supporters and promises protection to the other Islamic Republic
leaders. It says, �Supreme leader Ali Khamenei is a fundamental threat to
peace, for all signs point to his determination to develop the nuclear weapon� a
number of strategies can be put in place quickly to build pressure to both
reduce the threat and to promote democratic changes in Iran.� The authors
suggest that the US take these measures: 1) Give Khamenei an ultimatum to
suspend Iran�s nuclear activities, and if these activities continue, destroy
its nuclear facilities. 2) Support certain opposition forces and �democrats� in
removing Khamenei and make it clear that these people are the US�s new chosen
partners. 3) NGOs are to be told to start activity in Iran, and US private and
governmental human rights organisations are to be told to make Iran a budgetary
priority. 4) The US embassy in Tehran should be reopened to facilitate moving
ahead with this plan.
This is one of the plans. Perhaps there are others, too. In any case the US aim
is to monopolise control over political developments in Iran and keep the
initiative in their own hands. Clearly the US believes that the Islamic
Republic of Iran is on the verge of being overthrown. The US wants to make
itself the head and the architect of whatever �regime change� occurs in Iran.
The purpose is, first of all, to prevent the development of the people�s
forces, and, secondly, to enforce its will and strengthen its forces by
selecting and bringing together certain factions of the Islamic Republic and
monarchists and opposition forces. The main goal of all this is to ensure the
US�s unrestricted military presence under any future Iranian government.
What is to be done?
The Islamic Republic of Iran should be overthrown as soon as possible by the
forces of the people, and US aggression and intervention must be confronted.
This general orientation should guide the activities of the left parties and
organisations, progressive intellectuals and workers, and the mass movements of
students and women.
The US is the most powerful country in the world but it faces deadly dangers
with each step it takes. The Iranian regime is on the verge of being toppled
but that doesn�t mean that the system that produced the Islamic Republic would
be overthrown.
The blood-sucking and exploiting nature of US imperialism is not unknown to the
communists and a large section of people and freedom-loving organisations and
parties. We have the experience of the hijacking of the 1979 revolution [when
the US decided to back Khomeini rather than risk a revolutionary outcome after
the American-backed Shah was overthrown]. It is clear that US imperialism is
working hand in hand with new and old reactionaries, trying to impose a
caricature of changes instead of real changes, and to prevent the birth of a
real revolution that would bring about fundamental political and economic
changes. A hard and complex struggle is ahead of us. The masses of people with
their aspirations, and through the efforts of their communist vanguard, along
with all freedom-loving people, must be the initiators and organisers of the
overthrow of the Islamic Republic regime, smashing its organs of power and its
military and security organs. No imperialist power can be allowed to
dictate the degree, measure and depth of change in Iranian society so as to
mislead the people�s movement along the path it wants. It is up to the militant
forces to organise � at a highly accelerated pace � mass movements of the
workers, students, women and oppressed nationalities with clear
anti-reactionary and anti-imperialist positions, so that the people themselves
can overthrow the Islamic Republic and confront US plans.
With its own hands American imperialism has created a huge crisis and rift
within the state structures of the Middle Eastern countries. It is not at all
clear that the US will be able to reap the results for its own interests. A new
chapter of class struggle has started in Iran. There is a long way to go before
we can reach the conclusion, and it is not clear which class will write it. But
the working class and the peoples of Iran under the leadership of their
communist vanguard face great opportunities to write this conclusion
themselves. We must dare to seize this opportunity.
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