This call affirms that:

• Iran has been targeted for its independence and unwavering support for the Palestinian people for decades, including throughout the zionist-imperialist genocide that has taken over 100,000 Palestinian lives. 

• Iran has every right, including under international law, to defend itself and counterattack against US bases, outposts, and Israeli settler colonialism and occupation in the region.

• Iran’s resistance to this brutality is in defense of the whole of the Global South, from Palestine and Sudan to Cuba and Venezuela.

• Iran’s targeting of U.S. bases in the region underscores how Washington’s vast network of roughly 750 military installations across more than 80 countries and colonies—costing taxpayers at least $80 billion annually—serves as the global infrastructure of U.S. imperialist domination, and must be dismantled and shut down.

• Iran is defending its sovereignty against the same US imperialist war machine that, kidnaps and terrorizes migrants, targets working class, Black, Brown and Indigenous communities with its carceral and surveillance apparatuses, defunds healthcare, education, and other life-sustaining institutions, and is engaged in the McCarthyite repression of those resisting. The US remains the number one threat to peace in the region and in the world, inflicting death and destruction through military and economic warfare, including unilateral coercive measures, blockades, tariff wars, and currency manipulation.