The Tehran Resolution

The Tehran Resolution

Popular movements, parties, and progressive organizations issue a pledge to stand with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the peoples of West Asia in their struggle against imperial war and for regional liberation. The Resolution was launched by Haqooq e-Khalq, and we are a signatory alongside popular organizations around the world.

We, the undersigned:

1. Condemn the escalating war of aggression waged by the United States, Zionism, and its allies against the Islamic Republic of Iran. This hot war was prepared over decades through “cold” yet deadly sanctions, covert sabotage, targeted assassinations, military encirclement, and cognitive warfare. Its aim is to collapse the Iranian state — an agenda of balkanization through ethnic strife and de-develoment through bombardment that has become a hallmark of contemporary imperialist war.
2. Recognize Iran as a key node of the regional resistance that has, for over four decades, confronted the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the imperialist capture of the Arab-Iranian region, holding back attempts to subjugate the region’s peoples and resources to Western capital.
3. Uphold Iran’s inalienable right to self-defence. A nation subjected to acts of war — including the assassination of its senior leaders and the indiscriminate bombing of its cities — has every right to defend itself by all available means. We reject the imperial logic that grants the aggressor the monopoly on violence while criminalising the resistance of the besieged.
4. Condemn the regional comprador regimes that operate as nodes in the imperialist war apparatus. These client states harbour US military bases, provide logistical corridors for imperial power projection, normalise Zionism, and suppress their own peoples’ aspirations for popular sovereignty and dignity. The struggle against imperialism in the region is inseparable from the struggle against these collaborationist elites.
5. Recognise the agenda of “strategic sequencing” through which the United States seeks to wage a world war by other means — dismantling the pillars of the emerging multipolar order one by one. From Syria to Venezuela, Cuba to Iran, imperialism is waging a staggered confrontation, where each target is isolated, demonised, sanctioned, and subjected to hybrid war before the next is engaged. Rather than a series of unrelated conflicts, these form part of a global campaign to prevent the emergence of a new world order and prepare for an existential confrontation with empire‘s primary target: the People’s Republic of China.
6. Acknowledge Iran’s role as a pillar of the emerging multipolar order. Iran’s development of a ‘resistance economy’ and its strategic alliances — from the Axis of Resistance in the Arab-Iranian region to its partnerships with Russia, China, and the states of the Global South — represent precisely the infrastructure for a sovereign peripheral development that is intolerable to empire because it constrains its control over the global economy. The war on Iran is, at its core, a war to preserve the crumbling architecture of Western supremacy against the rising tide of a world demanding its right to sovereign and peaceful development.
7. Recognize that the forces driving this war have abandoned all restraint. Global capital no longer feels bound by the frameworks of international law or the compromises of the postwar order. The relentless expansion of NATO, the genocidal violence unleashed on Gaza, the kidnapping of Venezuela’s president, and now the indiscriminate bombing of Iran represent the dark logic of an empire in decline, willing to risk annihilation rather than accept a world it cannot control.
8. Reject the demonization of the Iranian state and its leadership, which has served as the ideological groundwork for sanctions, subversion, indiscriminate bombardment, and assassinations, including the criminal murder of the leader of the Iranian state, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. We reject, in particular, the cynical attempt to manufacture a rhetorical separation between the Iranian people and their sovereignty — as though a nation can be liberated by destroying the state that defends it. We condemn those forces, including within the ranks of the left, who advanced these narratives, lending intellectual cover to regime change and repeating the propaganda frameworks of empire while claiming to speak in the name of the Iranian people. History has judged this posture in Iraq, in Libya, in Syria. It will judge it again.
9. Note that the peoples of the region have spoken with a clarity that should shame those who equivocate. From Bahrain to Palestine, Pakistan to Iraq, the streets have filled with mourning for Iran’s murdered leaders, celebration for its retaliatory strikes, and fury at the US presence and its comprador agents in power. The children of Gaza cheer and laugh as Iran’s rockets fly toward the cities of their occupiers. There is no clearer sign that the defensive war being waged is an anti-colonial war whose stakes are not only Iran’s survival, but regional liberation. As Bobby Sands reminds us: “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”
10. Commit, in the face of this historic confrontation, to building the broadest possible front of solidarity with Iran and with all nations and peoples facing and resisting US or Zionist assault; to exposing and opposing the imperialist war machine wherever it operates — in parliaments, ports, military bases, and our media; to severing the logistical arteries that power the imperial war apparatus; and to preparing our movements for the decisive struggles ahead, knowing that the war on Iran is a war on everyone seeking to build a world beyond empire.

SIGNATORIES

• Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan

• People’s Academy, Global

• PUDEMO, Swaziland

• WAELE Africa, Pan-African

• Communist Party of Egypt, Egypt

• Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa

• Congolese Solidarity Campaign, Congo

• Observatory of Food Sovereignty and the
  Environment – OSAE, Tunisia

• Federation of Informal Workers of Nigeria, Nigeria

• Freedom Road Socialist Organization, US

• Congreso de los Pueblos, Colombia

• Climate Youth Finance Alliance, US

• National Students for Justice in Palestine, US

• People’s Programs, US

• Women Democratic Front, Pakistan

• UWAWAMA – The Manzese Working Women’s
  Cooperative, Tanzania

• Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive, Venezuela

• Black Alliance for Peace, International

• Friends of Swazi Freedom, Swaziland

• Communist Party of Swaziland, Swaziland

• Swaziland National Union of Students, Swaziland

• Communist Party Marxist – Kenya, Kenya

• Workers World Party, United States

• Che Guevara Commune, Venezuela

• Bronx Anti-War, US

• Palestinian Feminist Collective, International

• United States Peace Council, US

• Worker’s World, US

• International Action Center, US

• Popular Democratic Party of Lebanon, Lebanon

• Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative
  Revolutionary Path Movement, Palestine

• Zimbabwe People’s Land Rights Movement,
  Zimbabwe

• National Lawyers Guild, US

• Al Fida’i Media Network, US

• Namibian Domestic and Allied Workers Union,
  Namibia

• Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,
  International

• Coordinadora Simón Bolívar, Venezuela

• Tariq el Tahrir Youth and Student Network,
  International

• Nidal Seattle, US

• School of the Revolution, Belgium