WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, APO: Announcement on the war in Iran and call for mobilizations | Athens TV station (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 STOP THE US-NATO-ISRAEL WAR ON IRAN ---- The disintegration and complete bankruptcy of the world of the state and capitalism constitutes a limit for the era of its global integration and at the same time the cause of the intensification of intra-imperialist contradictions and the consequent increase in the threat of war. The state-capitalist system carries within itself its contradictions, the competition between the bourgeois staffs for the best position on the chessboard for the plunder and distribution of valuable and limited natural resources, the expansion of their "sphere of influence" is what makes the sirens of war sound again and again. Because as long as societies are bound by the so-called "national interest", private profit and capitalist accumulation, war will be the only way for empires in conflict. This capitalist law, however, does not mean at all that the system of oppression is heading towards its own annihilation, through its dead ends and contradictions if the peoples themselves do not claim to take their fate into their own hands.

States and transnational mechanisms turn on the war machines, launch military operations and shape warring societies both to expand their sphere of influence and to continue the plunder of the state and capitalist machine. A condition in which the only real losers are the peoples themselves, who are faced with the carnage of war and the consequences of war, impoverishment, poverty, uprooting and death. This is what is highlighted in the most tragic way, both in the war massacre in Ukraine after the Russian army's invasion 4 years ago and in the genocide of the Palestinian people, which is the brutal escalation of the 78-year-old bloody persecution of the Palestinian people from their land by the state of Israel and its allies. This is also evidenced by the ever-increasing aggression of the US with its intervention in Venezuela and its military operations against Iran, as a result of the crisis of its global hegemony and the enormous and multiple internal crises and its need to reassert its control over strategic areas rich in oil, minerals, water, etc.
Within this context, on February 28, the US-NATO-Israeli war operation against Iran was carried out with heavy bombing, which continues to this day. The sensitivity of American imperialism and genocidal Zionism, moreover, became apparent from the very beginning with the attack on a school and a training center, resulting in the murder of hundreds of children. Their same sensitivity was manifested with the bombing of desalination plants, making the situation prevailing in Iran even more suffocating due to the escalating water shortage. Subsequently, we witnessed the attack on an oil production plant in Tehran, with the direct result that the entire city was covered in toxic gases and substances, which pose a danger to the people living there. The hypocrisy of Western regimes exceeds all limits: at the same time that they cooperate flawlessly with all the monarchical, authoritarian & theocratic regimes of the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, etc., they use the regime of the Islamic Republic in Iran as a tool to invest their crimes with a supposedly "liberating tone", culminating in the cold-blooded murder of over 180 children in bombings. They thus continue their godly work as they began in the modern period with the bombings of Belgrade in 1999, with the war in Iraq in 2003 that destroyed the country, the twenty-year occupation in Afghanistan that left behind the Taliban regime re-established and strengthened, the surrender of Syria to the camouflaged ISIS, and the complete disintegration of Libya after the overthrow of Gaddafi, which was plunged into perpetual civil wars. The victims of imperialist predatory and neo-colonial wars and interventions are always the peoples themselves, who are massacred in this global slaughterhouse or take the path of migration to find death at the land and water borders of Europe with the murderous assistance of the Greek state. It would also be naive to believe that the slaughterer of the Palestinian people, Israel, would care about the lives of Iranians, when for 2 and a half years it has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, while at the same time trying to dominate the Middle East with the aim of completely transforming the region.
At the same time, Israel's murderous war machine is intensifying its aggression, expanding its strikes to southern Lebanon, giving the Lebanese people in its southern part and numbering more than 500,000 people a 24-hour deadline to abandon their homes and move to other areas. While it then began bombing southern Lebanon from the air even with phosphorus bombs and invaded the region with ground forces.
Greece, as a member of the European Union and NATO, is firmly oriented towards the aspirations of the dominant political and economic elite of which it is an integral part and is tied to the chariot of Euro-Atlanticism, responsible for so many interventions in recent years and beyond. The continuous energy and defense cooperation agreements between Greece and the United States constitute yet another example of the ratification and expansion of relations between the Greek and American states, confirmation of the attachment of the domestic bourgeoisie to the chariot of interests of the dominant international political and economic elite and strengthening of the role of the Greek state in the crucial region of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is precisely this strengthening of the role of the Greek state, which today passes through the undivided and comprehensive support of the US and the state of Israel, that makes the entire Greek territory the rear of the front line of Western imperialism in the Middle East. The American base of Souda in particular functions as a critical center for military monitoring, coordination and support of American and Euro-Atlantic operations throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The upgrading and expansion of its capabilities is directly linked to military actions in the Middle East, including direct and indirect support for the Israeli state and its participation in the genocide of the Palestinian people. This base symbolizes and serves the maintenance of American and Euro-Atlantic sovereignty and guardianship in the critical region of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing military capabilities for rapid reaction and handling of its geopolitical interests. Every ship that sets sail, every aircraft that takes off, every order issued from the Souda base offers services to the death machine that slaughters the peoples of the Middle East. In this context, the Greek state sends warships and planes to Cyprus, pretending that it is for assistance and for defensive purposes to prevent its attack. In reality, however, the Greek state involves the country more and more deeply in the war, first to defend the British military base at the Paphos cape, while then sending anti-aircraft systems to Karpathos for the defense of the American base at Souda and its frigates were and continue to be off the coast of Israel for its defense and the transfer of information via military radars regarding imminent strikes on NATO and American-Israeli targets.
The people of Iran, after being drowned in blood - once again over the years - by the regime after the popular uprising that broke out in January 2026, now find themselves faced with the bombs of Western imperialism, responsible for so many war operations around the world and the bloodshed of peoples. As anarchists, committed to the cause of the global social revolution and the principles of internationalism, we stand by the side of the Iranian people against repression and war, against tyrants and conquerors, recognizing that only the people of Iran themselves are responsible for their liberation, for their self-determination and emancipation, and for the conquest of a free life. Always on the side of the oppressed and exploited everywhere, never with the states, the transnational formations, the slaughterers of the peoples, the bosses.
No imperialist intervention can liberate the people - No state protects the peoples - No life can flourish under the clubs, the bullets and the ruins.

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Internationalist Solidarity with the people of Iran and Lebanon
Stop imperialist interventions in the Middle East
Close the bases - Sabotage the war machine
Immediate disengagement of the Greek state from the war
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