Statement of the Communist Organization of Greece, Member Organization of ILPS
It’s not Iran. It’s the whole world!
– Defeat the US-Israel plans
– Greece and Cyprus are being left exposed, and it’s the fault of their governments and elites
– For a great uprising of the peoples against imperialism
1) We fully condemn the attack the US launched against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran, a sovereign state, a people with a history of centuries tied to its land, has long been targeted by the US and Israel because it does not comply with their dictates. In other words, it is not accepting to become a “quasi-state” like Libya or Syria. The nuclear weapons that Tehran allegedly intended to build are nothing more than a pretext for the escalated aggression of recent days. The pursuit of regime change and references to the possibility of striking Iran with “tactical” nuclear weapons prove that the US-Israeli aggression does not stop there.
2) The plan for the so-called “New Middle East,” the genocide of the Palestinians, the wars (prolonged or brief) and the attempts for regime change are episodes in the strategic pursuit of control promoted by the US-Israel axis, and jointly by the war party in the West as a whole – with the EU Commission posing as a key component. The rush to war is chosen as a means of halting the retreat of Western-led globalization, and weakening and fragmenting the emerging new centers of power. It is this choice that opens Pandora’s box of escalating tensions and leads to attempts to normalize even the nuclear threat, either by whetting the appetite for the use of nuclear weapons or by declaring nuclear facilities as “legitimate” targets.
3) Now everyone is waiting for the intensity of a possible response from Iran, and whether it will directly hit American targets in the wider region. They are also assessing the extent of any involvement by Russia or China (which from the outset have limited themselves in calls for “calm”) or other regional powers. In any case, given the concentration of large quantities of modern weaponry in the region by the Western axis (mainly the US and the UK), and given the weakness of the international balancing mechanisms that have existed until now (see UN, IOAE) to influence developments, the escalation of the armed conflict will have negative consequences for the peoples and states of the region, and for peace and stability in general. The peoples of the Middle East are well aware that there can be no positive settlement unless the US-Israeli Zionist plan is defeated in its entirety.
4) Greece and Cyprus are once again close to the epicenter of the conflagration. We are not referring only to the short distance that separates Nicosia from Tel Aviv (as evidenced by the ships transporting Israelis to Cyprus), but mainly to the choice of the US-Israel axis to use the two Hellenic countries as a rear base for its new military campaigns. Greece and Cyprus are hostages to strategic cooperation with the US and Israel: politicians act as brokers for Zionist interests, services and state institutions are corrupt or under unbearable pressure, involvement in sectors of the economy indicates a significant degree of penetration, while the uncontrolled US bases in Souda Bay, Crete and the British bases in Akrotiri, Cyprus are constantly playing an upgraded operational role. In a turbulent era, such a choice to transform the country into a “NATO zone” is dangerous in many ways. Not only because it becomes a potential target, but mainly because, in the name of serving its “allies,” it loses all independence of action, all diplomatic flexibility, any independent policy of building power and defense against the real geopolitical dangers that threaten us. The political leadership, the government, and the elites of the country bear full responsibility for this reckless policy that leaves the country exposed to multiple risks of war.
5) The aim of the warmongers is to subjugate societies and states through the use of force. With their terrorist attacks, which have no pretext of legitimacy, and by broadcasting their atrocities live (as in Gaza), they want to send a message in every direction that the only way forward is to accept their own framework. And yet, history has never progressed in this way. Societies, countries and peoples, in the East and West, suffocating under the conditions of a global crisis, see the absurdity of military escalation as a threat to their very survival and are not convinced by warmongering narratives. And they have every reason to fight to stop the war, to defeat the instigators and orchestrators of military escalation, to isolate the regional bullies.
6) Let the destructive power of weapons, the supposedly invincible war machines and the supposedly impenetrable domes be countered by the power of societies and peoples who refuse to accept their own self-destruction. Let there be a great uprising of peoples who are under siege on many fronts throughout the world, and who are struggling for their self-evident right to live free in free homelands. In this perspective, the development of a mass anti-war and anti-imperialist movement at the national, regional, and international levels seems to be the only realistic path, the only one that can open up viable and positive ways forward.
June 22, 2025
KOE / Communist Organization of Greece
Additions:
● The leaders of the Western bloc, with all their internal contradictions, have chosen war in order to halt the decline of the West. This war is fragmented, marked by episodes of escalation, setbacks and contradictions. However, it remains the central choice.
● The change in the balance of power in the Middle East (blows to the forces of resistance, fall of Syria) has led the US and the occupying Zionist state to believe that by launching an extreme and unprovoked attack on Iran, they would achieve their main goal in the region: the ‘disappearance’ of Iran through regime change.
● In this attack, Iran’s nuclear program was merely a pretext. If the US really wanted to limit it, it could have achieved this by reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, which the very US blew up. Instead, the US and Israel flirted (and still flirt) with the idea of using nuclear weapons to achieve regime change in Iran and their goals elsewhere.
● These plans have failed miserably, despite the enormous superiority of the US. Because it is not only weapons and plans on paper that determine where things will go. The stance and determination of the people play a decisive role.
● Thus, faced with the impossibility of achieving their basic goal, but also because of their internal contradictions (plus the unwillingness of the majority of North Americans to support this aggressive war), the US was forced to declare a truce with Iran.
● To the extent that the truce is not just another deceptive move and is respected, Iran has gained valuable time. Of course, the recent historical record of both the Trump administration and the criminal Zionist leadership rightly raises doubts about the ‘indefinite’ duration of the truce, as Trump has described it.
● As for the strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow and elsewhere by US strategic bombers, their degree of success is uncertain. Here we are now entering the realm of psychological and propaganda warfare, where each side is celebrating, without known facts.
● In any case, this is a temporary arrangement with an unknown outcome, which in any case constitutes a setback for the US-Israel plans. While it does not rule out the choice of war as central, Trump’s declaration of a truce highlights the internal contradictions and crisis that are ripping through the Western bloc.
● At the same time, it reveals that even at moments of greatest tension, channels of communication exist between competing global centers of power. The mutual blackmail and forced compromises that emerge from these communications remain unknown to the majority of humanity.
● The struggling peoples and resistance and liberation movements must make efforts to understand the changes in the balance of power and take them into account in their struggle. Above all, they must realize the importance and necessity of contributing to the emergence of a global popular movement that will defend a just peace and will defeat the destructive plans and projects of imperialism.
● Despite the relative and forced retreat of the aggressors on this particular front (because we do not forget that, for example, in occupied Palestine, the Zionist rogue state is methodically and unhindered carrying out its campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population), we remain in an era where:
● The trend towards unjust, imperialist war is intensifying, with the central choice of militarization emphasizing that we have entered a period of preparation for even greater conflicts.
● The elites are promoting their plan for a “naked” transition to a world dominated by suffocating digital and real control of states, nations and peoples, which aspires to prevent them from even expressing their will for a different orientation.
● Cynicism openly prevails in international relations, with brute force tearing apart every rule and concept of international law, while certain ‘mutual understandings’ between the opposing great powers remain in place, also due to their interdependence.
● Under these conditions, the peoples targeted by imperialism and Zionism, such as the proud peoples of Palestine, Yemen and others in the long-suffering Middle East, are being led to martyrdom. We must prevent this process of enslavement of nations and peoples by giving life to a coordinated international anti-war and anti-nuclear movement, aiming to repel the inhuman and destructive plans of imperialism, and especially the greatest warmongers, US-Israel, without bowing to the cynicism that prevails on all sides of the international system.
June 24, 2025
International Relations Department of KOE
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