19 June 2025 By A-APRP
The illegal zionist state of Israel started bombing Iran on Friday, June 13th, 2025. The aerial bombing coincided with the assassination of a number of scientists, generals and civilians. This unprovoked, criminal assault was accompanied by sabotage of government facilities, drone attacks on civilian infrastructure and the unleashing of internal cells loyal to the west, determined to dismantle the Iranian state. Taken as a whole the military assault is eerily reminiscent of the 2011 attack on Libya that killed Muammar Gaddafi and devastated Africa’s most progressive nation state.
This is all done to insure US dominance in the region under the pretext of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The capitalist mainstream media, the US Government, and Israel are claiming Israel is protecting itself from a powerful nuclear neighbor. But a careful analysis reveals a quite different reality. Firstly, Israel is the state that possesses nuclear weapons. They are aggressors claiming to be victims. Secondly Israel is nothing more than a proxy of US led imperialism, which wants to economically and militarily dominate the region. This is part of the imperialist plan to dominate the world.
The zionist state of Israel was created to serve the interests of imperialism by establishing an imperialist fortress in Western Asia. The US provides its zionist outpost with diplomatic cover, military aid, finances and intelligence, and in exchange Israel serves as the front line of Western aggression in the region. Iran is sanctioned and labeled a state sponsor of terrorism, while Israel operates as a living terrorist state, with impunity.
Israel’s strikes on Iran pursues broader imperialist interests by destroying its nuclear program, sabotaging civilian infrastructure (churches, schools, roads, and power grids) and reducing its ability to provide support for legitimate liberation organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas.
Since the 1979 revolution that overthrew the illegally installed puppet Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, imperialism has targeted Iran for destruction. Through the use of sanctions, proxy conflicts, and the promotion of alliances between Israel and Gulf states, the US limits Iran’s power and weakens their regional influence. Whether the US rhetorically calls for “de-escalation” or wages a proxy war through Israel, the goal is the same; controlled conflict and prevention of genuine peace. This is a pattern consistent with decades of US policy in the region. Saving Israel is not the end goal; saving imperialist dominance is.
Imperialism’s Strategic Objective is Full Spectrum Dominance
The US, European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (US/EU/NATO) make up a gang of three called the Axis of Evil. Together they are engaged in a coordinated, continuous, long term, geo-strategic plan to dominate the planet. Imperialism targeted Russia, by embroiling her in military hostilities with Ukraine that limits its capacity to support its allies militarily. This has been followed by a strategic assault on Western Asia that includes the genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza. Once the genocide was well underway the west, through its Israeli partner, attacked Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen to destroy the “Axis of Resistance,” an alliance that grew around the Palestinian resistance with the support of Iran. All of these actions are enforced through a ring of US military bases in Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria, that surround Iran and provide rapid response capabilities. All of Israel’s military actions against Iran must be understood and viewed within this broader geopolitical context.
Since the first imperialist World War, the west has maintained an increasingly significant military, geopolitical, and economic presence in Western Asia (commonly, but incorrectly referred to as the Middle East). This presence is driven by “vital interests,” mainly securing oil and natural gas supplies. Located at the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe, imperialism dominates trade routes, and is strategically placed to militarily counter any challenge to its domination. The vast oil, natural gas, and other resources along with its position as a global transit hub have made this region a focal point of US led imperialist foreign policy. And make no mistake, nothing that we’re witnessing is new or spontaneous.
Western Dominance
We rarely hear about the extent to which the US-led imperialist system is seeking to shape a future global economic order that keeps Western dominance firmly at the helm. This is accomplished through control of energy markets, labor, financial systems, and military/technological supremacy. In short, they safeguard the profits of monopoly capital, using all available means.
One of the primary resources employed to safeguard Western interest is the terrorist state of zionist Israel. Israel’s economy is based on war and plunder. It is number seven in the world in military arms production and number four worldwide in arms sales. The plunder and theft of the world’s natural resources is most clearly demonstrated by their near total control of the world’s diamond industry. In spite of the fact that there are no diamond mines in occupied Palestine, Israel exports 70% of the world’s processed diamonds that are largely mined in Africa and makes up 12% of the settler state’s GDP. The arms manufactured in Israel and supplied by the U.S. assure them military supremacy over all the other states in the region. Through these and other nefarious arrangements Israel is sustained and their assault on humanity continues unabated.
Petro Dollars
In addition to military domination of the region and, ultimately, the world, imperialists also seek to maintain financial hegemony and safeguard the US Dollar as the global financial instrument. They will do anything to ensure that global oil trade remains dominated by the dollar, a key requirement to sustaining US financial hegemony. Imperialism tolerates no threats to this domination. They enforce dollar hegemony through diplomatic pressure, financial coercion, sanctions, and military interventions. Any nation attempting to bypass the dollar faces economic warfare, psychological warfare and military regime-change. Imperialism resorts to the complete destruction of” states that refuse to bow down and surrender their sovereignty. We have witnessed this in both Iraq and Libya.
The rise of BRICS, digital currencies, and de-dollarization trends, have led to even more aggressive financial tactics. This is what Iran is facing, but we have seen these tactics before. Iraq’s announcement that they would sell oil in euros instead of dollars, Libya’s announcement that they would introduce a Pan-African currency, and Yugoslavia’s move away from the dollar in trading in Europe, resulted in all being subjected to US invasions and overthrow of their governments.
When Iran tried to bypass dollar-based trade (e.g., selling oil in euros, yuan, or cryptocurrencies). The US responded with severe sanctions, partially cutting Iran off from SWIFT, (the global dollar-based messaging system) and pressuring other countries to avoid non-dollar transactions with Iran. When Venezuela launched the oil-backed “Petro” cryptocurrency in 2018 to evade US sanctions, the US banned their citizens from trading it and pressured other countries to reject it.
After the formation of BRICS and the 2014 US sanctions against Russia over Crimea, Russia developed its own alternative payment system, System for Financial Messaging, (SPFS) and promoted de-dollarization. The U.S. has since escalated sanctions, frozen Russian reserves, and pressured allies to limit Russian access to alternative currencies.
Additionally, the US has suppressed digital and cryptocurrency development that could challenge US dominance in Africa and Asia, stopping China’s Digital Yuan expansion and pressuring its allies to reject China’s digital yuan in cross-border trade. The US understands that a Chinese digital Yuan would weaken dollar dominance in Africa and Asia. And while the U.S. has pressured allies to reject rival currencies, it has weaponized SWIFT (imperialism’s global dollar-based messaging system) by restricting Iran and Russia, and punishing foreign banks that facilitate non-dollar trade with sanctioned states.
Understanding Dollarism and Resistance Against it
So why is Iran a target? Iran is labeled a threat to the US and Israel. But the real threat is economic, and understanding the concept of dollarism helps to make this clear. The US dollars’ dominance in the global financial system (often called “dollarism”) is a cornerstone of the United State’s economic and geopolitical power. Maintaining this system provides enormous benefits but also comes with risks if it were to weaken.
Here’s a breakdown of why this is crucial for the US, the economic advantages, and what’s at stake.The US enforces a worldwide system where certain commodities, such as oil, can only be traded using the dollar, thus forcing other countries to maintain vast reserves of US dollars. The US literally “prints money” that the world relies on, earning vast profits from currency circulation outside the US. The dollar system and the Central Banking System provides a massive financial and geopolitical advantage to the US economy, including lowering borrowing costs, enabling sanctions, and sustaining US economic supremacy. If this system erodes, the US would face higher debt costs, inflation, and weakened global influence and coercive power.
Iranian attempts to bypass dollar sanctions through a variety of means, including the China-Iran 25-Year Cooperation Agreement (2021) undermine dollar dominance. Israel’s current attacks on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure disrupts these alternative economic networks, reinforcing US leverage.
But perhaps of greatest significance are major geopolitical acts of resistance to imperialism. These include, the BRICS Initiative, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, Iran’s Gas Pipelines, and Increasing challenges to Neo-Colonialism in Africa.
The BRICS Initiative represents a real challenge to Western economic dominance. BRICS is a block of countries which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, representing 45% of the world’s population and 36% of global GDP. An additional thirty nations have either formally or informally expressed an interest to join.
The establishment of alternative payment systems and mechanisms capable of eliminating reliance on Western-dominated financial networks, pose a serious challenge to the present economic order.
The US continually threatens countries against joining any BRICS initiatives that promote non-dollar trade. Iran’s pipeline Initiatives represent attempts to funnel its natural gas to the world market outside the ambit of imperialist control. Initially the Iran-Iraq-Syria Pipeline (IIP) was designed to supply those nations plus Europe. The US imperialist war against Iraq, along with sanctions against Iran halted the project. The Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) “Peace Pipeline” was again stopped because of US sanctions on Iran. These pipelines would have brought 60 billion dollars into Iran’s economy annually, and up to 100 billion without the sanctions. This is the reason the US has attacked Syria and overthrew the government—to block pipeline construction. This is the real reason that Iran is portrayed as a pariah, as dangerous, as an enemy of humanity; not because of anything they’ve done to harm the US or Israel, but because of the threat of unseating imperialism’s global economic dominance.
Venezuela is a key player in this equation, possessing the largest oil reserves in the world. Following the victory of the Bolivarian Revolution, US imperialism imposed stifling economic embargoes and sanctions, severely damaging the economy and all social networks. As a result, 90% of the oil engineers fled Venezuela due to the economic crisis created by the US actions, further damaging the oil industry and causing enormous hardships to the Venezuelan people and the entire region that shared Venezuelan oil resources through the ALBA agreements instituted by Hugo Chavez and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
Last Gasp Of A Dying Monster (The Imperialist Military Assault)
Imperialism (through the zionist entity in Israel) instituted regime change in Syria, and executed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Iran supports the Palestinians with arms, money, training and material. Iran is now being targeted for regime change.
We must also take note that these Imperialist/zionist forces are not confining their military activity to one country or region. While a new war rages in Iran, imperialism creates ongoing conflicts of various types in the Western Sahara, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, DRC, Sudan, Guinea Bissau, the Alliance For Sahelian States (which includes Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso), Venezuela, Nicaraqua, Cuba, North Korea, Haiti, Russia, China and other places throughout the world. This is in fact an imperialist policy of Full Spectrum Domination.
The U.S. has at least 45 military bases surrounding Iran and the US has already threatened Iran declaring,“If Iran attacks any U.S. military bases we will bomb Iran with the likes they have never seen”. After lying about their involvement in the attacks on Iran by Israelis the US president went on to say, “We gave them a chance to negotiate a peace agreement and they wouldn’t agree to our terms.” So, now they will have to come to the negotiation table and agree to our terms.”
This is how the dying capitalists/imperialists act in their last stage of existence. They engage in multiple wars, terrorism and genocide as they are declining. They try to kill, terrorize as many people and nations as possible. But, they have been losing militarily, economically and politically everywhere. Including losing the propaganda war around the world.
An increasing number of the people are seeing the contradictions more clearly as the U.S./E.U./NATO/zionist axis attacks, kills and destroys more people. The underpinning of colonialism, settler colonialism and neo-colonialism is violence They are losing everywhere on many different fronts all over the world including Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and especially Palestine.
We know the masses of the people will win and destroy capitalism and imperialism. Because we know nothing can stop the will of the people especially when they are organized into a fighting force on a global scale.
The Significance of Pan-Africanism
A new wave of anti-neo colonial resistance that is sweeping Africa is reshaping oil and gas politics, challenging imperialist dominance, and aligning with the BRICS led push to “de-dollarize” the world’s economy. This movement is driven by youth uprisings, military coups, formation of alliances, and rising ideological awareness that imperialism is the enemy of humanity. As a result, Western oil companies which have long exploited Africa, are losing their grip while Russia, China, and Iran are viewed as more trusted partners. As this momentum spreads, African resources are increasingly being used for Africa and African people. Additionally, China, Russia and Iran could be granted greater access to Africa’s resources locking out the US and Western Europe. And every time Africa trades in a currency other than dollars, the grip of the dollar weakens. So Africa is the real battleground for control of oil, gas, and critical minerals such as cobalt and lithium. We know that when imperialism thinks it has weakened Africa’s allies, they will not hesitate to militarily attack Africa. We must resist the trap of neo-colonialism and fight to maintain the gains that we’ve made. We must ensure that imperialism and capitalism will find their graves in Africa!
We Stand With Iran
The flagrant violation of human rights, the trampling over the sovereignty of nations that resist, the blatant racist domestic policies, police brutality, and military threats, are all examples of the lengths to which imperialism will go to survive. Capitalism cannot be reformed or humanely applied. The only solution to the problem is the total destruction of the US-led capitalist system and its twin, global imperialism.
Imperialist wars will only increase, but people in general and Africans in particular, must not be misled into fighting for, or sending our sons and daughters to fight in any imperialist or neo-colonialist militaries. We must reject the racist, capitalist narrative that always frames the US and the Global North as the “good” while framing those who resist oppression as “evil”. Liberation requires a clear mind. We cannot afford to be deceived. Iran is not our enemy, the US and EU imperialism and zionism are our enemies. The institutions such as NATO, AFRICOM, the IMF, the World Bank, etc. are our enemies; designed to exploit our labor, maintain our oppression, steal our resources and land, and dominate our economies. Whether we live inside or outside of Africa, we must unite, across borders, to fight against capitalism, neocolonialism, zionism, imperialism and all forms of injustice. We must study, and understand the world so that we can clearly distinguish our friends from our enemies.
We encourage Africans everywhere to join organizations that are wedded to our people’s collective interests. As individuals we are weak and easily defeated, but history has demonstrated that the people united can never be defeated.
The AAPRP calls for the permanent coordination of our fighting forces, in the framework of an All African Committee for Political Coordination (AACPC). Given the global nature of African domination we must merge all the revolutionary Pan-African political parties in Africa, and its diaspora under an international strategy to defeat imperialism.
Africans must unite under the banner of Pan-Africanism–the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party condemns in the strongest terms Israel’s unprovoked, indiscriminate, illegal, terrorist attacks against the peoples of Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen. We condemn zionism’s inhumane, genocidal slaughter being waged against the Palestinian people, and the deplorable silence or complicity of much of the world. We condemn the forced displacement of peoples that result from immoral and illegal sanctions and blockades, and theft of resources, which drive people from their homelands. We stand in unity with the people of Iran, the people of Palestine and all peoples who are fighting for their liberation and sovereignty against US led imperialism.