THE Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Major General Ali Abdollahi, has warned regional countries against aligning with the United States, saying any state that acts as a ‘defensive shield’ for Washington will ‘burn in the fire of war’.
In a message addressed to countries in the region on Saturday, General Abdollahi said the United States is ‘pursuing, with increasing speed, the path of widespread warmongering in a regional war’, describing the approach as part of ‘a dangerous strategy aimed at expansion and illegitimate domination across the entire region’.
‘We explicitly declare that Muslim countries must exercise foresight, monitor America’s crimes, and reconsider cooperation and alignment with the United States,’ he said.
The United States has used its bases that are spread out in regional countries in its 40-day joint war of aggression on Iran, which began on February 28th.
Iran, in response, has attacked US military bases and interests in those countries, in addition to Israeli targets in the occupied territories.
The commander said the recent war against the Islamic Republic demonstrated that the ‘criminal United States’ would refrain from no act of ‘mischief or destruction’ in pursuit of its ‘satanic objectives’, even at the expense of the interests and resources of Muslim nations.
He said Muslim countries should recognise that Washington is using their capital, wealth, critical infrastructure, and strategic resources ‘as a defensive shield for its worn-out army’, while simultaneously strengthening the military and security apparatus of the ‘child-killing and terrorist Zionist regime’.
He further said Iran, its armed forces, and the Axis of Resistance have shown that the regional balance of power ‘no longer follows its previous parameters’, arguing that the United States and Israel have failed to achieve their ‘aggressive and illegitimate strategies’ against the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s security chief warns that continued warmongering on the part of the United States towards the Islamic Republic will tighten the closure that the country has imposed on the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran and Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement have taken control of the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab Strait, respectively, amid escalations from the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
On Friday evening, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolqadr stated: ‘The continuation of the US regime’s maritime blockade and warmongering will further tighten the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and also close other straits and chokepoints, and the global economy, energy markets, and American voters will pay the price.’
In fact, the time has come for the working class of the world to take mass actions including general strikes in support of the Iranian revolution.
There must be immediate Congresses called of the UK’s TUC and the US and European trade union movements to organise international general strike action in support of the Iranian and Palestinian people.
It is high time for the world’s trade unions to give their mass support to the Iranian and Palestinian revolutions to put an end to the power of imperialism, and to deposit their leaders into the dustbin of history where they belong!
This is the only way to stop bankrupt imperialism continuing its attempts to recolonise the world to grab back the rich resources its needs to try and make a desperate attempt to save its failing capitalist economies.
