LEADING ‘liberal’ Democrat US Senator Elizabeth Warren has stated that pressure is mounting for the United States to end its unprovoked, illegal war on Iran following last week’s midterm elections that saw Trump’s Republican Party lose control of the US Congress.
In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Warren said: ‘People have told us they want us to stop the war, a war that is illegal, that is halfway around the world, that to this day, the Trump administration can’t explain what their goals are, and what their exit ramp looks like.’
Warren went on: ‘Americans want us to stop it. They want us not to spend money over there. They want to be able to buy gasoline and heating oil fuel because they want this economy to work again.’
While Warren opposed the US-Israeli war after it was launched on February 28, the same cannot be said of the rest of the Democrat senators who have sat back while Trump and the Zionist regime launched wave after wave of missile attacks designed to obliterate the leadership of Iran and open the way for the seizure of its wealth and to secure its vital strategic position for US imperialism.
The Democrats’ complaint is that US imperialism has failed to win, and in the words of Democrat senator Chris Murphy: ‘Donald Trump has lost this war. America is weaker. Iran is stronger.’
This message has been lost on the Trump administration with reports in the US news following last week’s midterm rout that Trump convened a meeting with senior military leaders to discuss the options open to them in the face of the failure to defeat Iran.
The options under discussion boiled down to just three:
Accept the offer from Iran to resume negotiations within two days on Iran’s proposal to end the conflict by the US accepting Iranian demands to end all conflicts in the region and end the illegal naval blockade and sanctions on Iran.
Option 2 is for the US to continue its failed attempt at economically damaging Iran through sanctions; while the third option being to resume all-out war in a desperate attempt to secure the victory that has evaded the US.
On Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed any diplomatic negotiations with Iran calling their proposals ‘simply unacceptable’ and in some cases ‘very strange, ridiculous, and completely unrealistic’.
Yesterday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei responded to Rubio, noting that Washington appeared to regard Iran’s pursuit of its legitimate national rights and interests as ‘unacceptable’.
He asked what was ‘unreasonable’ about Iran demanding cessation of aggression on all fronts and for an end to the US illegal naval blockade and economic sanctions.
Baghaei said: ‘These are neither unlawful nor irrational demands. What is irrational and absurd is the United States attacking Iran in the middle of negotiations.’
He said that the political and social upheavals in the US are the repercussions of the failure of US imperialism to defeat Iranian resistance and resilience, and that without Iran’s ability to withstand the aggression, the US administration would have presented the war to Americans as a ‘victory’ – a victory that the Democrat Party would have joined in celebrating.
This is the point that Baghaei made when he cautioned against assuming that Democratic control of the Senate meant the US adopting a more ‘favourable’ approach towards Iran.
He dismissed any distinction between the two major US political parties as both have targeted Iran.
The defeat of US imperialism by Iran has sharpened the crisis of world capitalism and provided the impetus for the massive tide of revolution sweeping the working class and youth in America and the world.
The working class, with youth in the lead, are rising up against a bankrupt capitalist system that has no way out of collapse but to wage war in a desperate attempt to restore its domination over the world.
The immediate task today for the working class is to mobilise in mass action to bring down their capitalist governments and advance to worldwide socialism.
