A-Infos (en) UK, AFed, Organise - March 9, 2026: One Week into the Next Eternal War (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On the morning of February 28, A U.S. Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton 
takes off from Abu Dhabi with a flight plan to Sigonella, it instead 
begins to circle over the desert gaining altitude, waiting. The go-code 
is given following an successful Israeli combot mission. It repositions 
to the gulf of Oman, presumably to watch /respond to the operations in 
the Chabahar and Minab against the The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 
(IRGC) naval forces. It is part of one of the swiftest and most 
effective military actions to decapitate an enemies capacity since the 
six day war, when the Isreali air force decimated it's Egyptian counterpart.

In Minab, a school next to the base is struck, scores of young girls are 
dead, the numbers keep escalating, droves more are injured. It appears 
to been hit centre mass, similarly to all the IRGC targets around it, 
and despite the hundreds of aircraft and drones, live camera feeds, and 
active monitoring of the entire area the US military is still, days 
later, "investigating" as their civil propagandists share a random 
telegram feed and claim it's evidence that it was an IRGC failure.

Those kids are dead because Israel wanted to strike Iran and America 
jumped on board and decided to show it's strength. Their personnel watch 
those kids die live and not only do they not own up to it, they can't 
even tell you why they instigated the series of events which will likely 
lead to tens of thousands dead. I don't care whose missile it was, 
whether it was a target based on poor data or a misfire. They are dead 
and thousands more around are going to join them.

While following the flight path of the drone above I notice it was two 
hours before civilian flights were cleared from the skies, innocent 
lives of little value for either regime but perhaps a lesson you'd have 
thought they recalled since the 1988, downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by 
the US warship Vincennes and more recently the downing of Ukraine 
International Airlines Flight 752 in 2020 by the IRGC.

Civilian lives mean nothing to the pursuit of a state's objectives and 
ideological victory.  The coming brutal violence coming to the people of 
Iran means nothing to authoritarian bodies in Washington, Jerusalem, or 
Tehran for that matter.

They have no plan for a transition towards a lasting peace, just or 
otherwise. Peace isn't the purpose, destabilisation is. To that end the 
factions that are deemed useful "strategic allies", will be supplied and 
told to "liberate yourself", whether that is Monarchists, the wider 
movement for reform, PJAK or whoever else. As noble as these causes may 
be, without a slow considered step forward, it will be little more than 
a endless battlefield. The U.S. and Israeli militaries are keen to push 
forward. No time to brief, no time to open talks. Fight now. Kill and be 
Killed.

They don't want peace. Days go by, unable to settle on a stated 
objective the American state calls for a "complete surrender". They know 
that no such thing will come, no matter how much of Iran they glass. 
They only want an eternal war.

Aims and Justification.
"America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, 
is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history. 
B-2s, fighters, drones, missiles, and of course classified effects. All 
on our terms with maximum authorities. No stupid rules of engagement, no 
nation-building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically 
correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives...
...War is hell and always will be"  - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

This is the language of the eternal war, of purposeful destabilisation.

They have absolutely no plan here other than to decimate the leadership 
and stir up instability and civil conflict and they will do so to 
thunderous applause of a population of indoctrinated reactionaries, 
slackjawwed and in awe of "might" and the self interest of billionaires 
and state officials who could not give a damn for them.

All over the media from various state resources from the White House to 
military channels keep enforcing that they will carry on until their 
objectives are complete, that they will win. There has been no actual 
indications of what those objectives are other than vague military 
targets such as nuclear prevention, destroying military threats, 
defending allies. Even the most recent demand of "complete surrender" is 
a without any substance, a strongman soundbite that means nothing. This 
is no end-state and even the reasons they give persistently shift.

On March 1, two sources told Reuters that there was no intelligence 
about Tehran attacking U.S. forces first. On March 2,  US Secetary of 
State Marco Rubio told the the press that "If Iran was attacked, and we 
knew it would be attacked, that it would immediately come after us and 
we were not going to sit there ... We went proactively in a defensive 
way", Mike Johnson the Rep. Speaker of the House stated "Israel was 
determined to act in their own defense here, with or without American 
support. Why? Because Israel faced what they deem to be an 'existential 
threat'". This existential threat seemingly be a rather florid way to 
describe the intel they now held of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 
location,. His location alongside that of his family. Collateral they 
were happy to make.

This is the same rhetoric, albeit condensed by immediacy, that Putin 
used to launch an imperialist invasion of Ukraine. Denounced then, 
utilised now. Thus is the nature of nationalism and so as "we" denounce 
their war crimes outright, "ours" we are perpetually "investigating" 
until some time in the distant future when we can talk about "mistakes".

March 3, seeking to save face and still undecided whether he has once 
again pitched the U.S. into war, Trump told reporters as he met German 
chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House. wavered between this being 
support for protestors and women's liberation and a defensive strike and 
a need to remove a great evil.

"I think they were going to attack first, and I didn't want that to 
happen. So, if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand" Trump said 
while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office. "We were having 
negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were 
going to attack first."

A week into the war, March 6, Trump finally settles on a call for 
"complete surrender" and a personal selection for the new leader, made 
somewhat difficult since by his own acknowledgement they've killed most 
of the people on their list of who they could work with.

"Complete surrender" isn't a military objective. It's a call for an 
eternal war. I don't think there has ever been an example in which a 
fundamentalist regime, with complete infrastructural domain, has ever 
"completely surrendered" without a persiod of active occupation and 
interventionalist regime change. Those who have seen active occupation 
and interventalist regime change have near uniformally seen decades of 
deep and painful struggle and the theft of each and every resource by 
Western corporations.

Once again Western states manufacture an imminent threat so that we can 
destabilise the region and either have an eternal war we can use to 
spread our sphere of influence or a regime change for a proxy who will 
not only be consumed into our domain but also cater the industrial rape 
of Iran's resources until such a point it's politically advantageous for 
us to leave and the eternal war can carry on.

This is the aim and justification, a series of empty rhetroic, bellicose 
statements. If you don't support of decision to bomb cities thousands of 
miles around the globe, you are a traitor, you support the terror regime 
in Iran, you hate freedom. The "president of peace" beams with joy at he 
orders a seventh country to be attacked since his second term started. 
The "Board of Peace", the very definition of antiphrasis, get's it's 
first war. The death cult bursts into paroxysms of jingo as they embrace 
distant violence.

Distraction Pieces
So begins the tsunami of propoganda that comes with a state's desire to 
manufacture and manipulate public opinion. Alongside a huge spike in the 
usual misinfo, old footage, nonsensical statistics, we see a wave of AI 
fakery. The purpose of all this is to win the immediate emotional 
response, no need to consider the truth or the subsequent retractions 
after the immediate moment is forgotten. Newspapers keenly craft 
headlines, tone and voice used with purpose and deliberation to 
influence us all. Through all this I see a few narratives take hold and 
snowball, in particular we're told to look to...

The History... One of the most popular trains of narrative in American 
messaging has been that "The war has been going on for 47 years" a 
reference to the 1979, when Iranian students seized the US embassy in 
Tehran and held 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days. Much like Putin's 
excuses that his tanks rolling over the border is simply a defensive 
action in a larger more protracted war, so too are the American and 
Israeli fighters, bombers, and missiles. We're not striking first, this 
war started off in history, this is defensive.

They might wish to avoid drawing a historical lenses least people look 
back to Aug 19, 1953 when Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was 
overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza 
Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. A coup driven by the British (as Operation 
Boot) and Americans (as Operation Ajax) as a response to the 
nationalisation of oil production, which hit their profiteering, and 
economic dominance over the region.

The Iranian's Celebrating... It is the son of  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 
Reza Pahlavi who the Monarchists wish to install and who make up nearly 
the entirety of the footage of diaspora Iranians celebrating in American 
streets presented by American propaganda outfits as an after the fact 
cassus belli. To them, some Iranian joy is more important than others, 
so it's mostly the monarchists and their lion which saturate their feed. 
Don't worry though, Reza has said if he became the shah, he'd go about 
making Iran a secular democratic system with free elections. Promise.

A week earlier the vast majority of those delightingly sharing new found 
American and Iranian joy would have been cheering on ICE kidnapping and 
deporting the Iranian as they have done 1,087 times in 2025. You will be 
entirely unsuprised to find that this has been something of a spike 
since Trump came into power.

To the Feminist liberation of 46 million women...  if you're not keenly 
embracing Monarchistic values (which ofcourse they'd never want for 
themselves, unless Trump decides he wants that third term) then you're 
an anti-feminist now, or so millions of feminists who happen to be 
opposed to wars of aggression found themselves designated.

American demagogues use the language of liberty to steal that very thing 
from their citizens, now they weaponise the languages of women's 
liberation, just like they did in Afghanistan. A sanitized 
bastardisation, selective solidarity with the voices that fit the 
propaganda required today. Make sure to only share footage of women who 
reflect our European culture and don't you dare show footage of women 
who support the regime, or even worst, women in the movement for liberty 
and reform who happen to also wear Hijab. There is a right women and a 
wrong woman for this, inevitably brief, indulgence in reductive binary 
propagandising.

I suppose the expropriation of feminism is still new to conservative 
reactionaries so their grasp of the gender politics at play depends more 
upon their view of attractive young women. Some are delighted at the 
"baddies" and are keen to swap them with the ugly lib women of America 
at a favourable exchange rate (WallStreetMav, right wing investment 
influencer with 1.7 million followers) the top comment asserting that 
the Muslim women can stay in Iran tho, to which the influence laughs. 
Others are horrified at how swiftly the Iranian women all turned into 
"hookers" (Melissa Wong, "America first" Chair of Montana Libertarian 
Party) a post in the thread showing how removing the Hijab is the first 
step towards being Onlyfans camgirls.

Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of women and girls are displaced and 
without shelter across Lebanon and Iran, god knowns how many with die in 
the coming storm.

Our Might and Tremble... The Americans in particular, with great 
machismo, are quick to say "peace through superior firepower" and other 
such. Soundbite language of brutal authority and tyranny. It is a 
deathcult who pride themselves in apathy at the violence and awe of 
their capacities. These capacities ofcourse born from their absurd 
military spending in a land that is drowning in destitution and poverty. 
Twenty years ago the Democrats sought to mask this idiom with the 
eponymously titled "Operation Iraqi Freedom" (while washing themselves 
in Iraqi blood), the republicans steer into the bravado with the 
painfully childish "Operation Epic Fury".

The devastation of Iranian responses... and if the BBC is any indicator 
the terrible suffering of holiday makers and British migrants whose been 
enjoying a tax free life in a sunny slave state for years? The poor babes.

Let us be clear, the often indiscriminate drone and missile attacks are 
nothing but vengeance, as morally repugnant and tactically redundant as 
they are. No amount of apologetic twaddle about "bringing the fight to 
the enemy" or "there has to be a response/price for their attacks" can 
deflect from murdering innocent people. We can highlight all the America 
facilities that ring Iran all day, but those bases are not the sole 
target are they, residential tower blocks are a lot easier to pilot a 
drone into than a operational command or launch platform after all.

These horrific moments are already being used as ammunition for the 
endless pursuit of vengence, each thrilling clip of air defence lighting 
up the night sky laced with jingoist sabre rattling, each life taken 
plastered across your screens in harrowing news reports to justify the 
next wave of violence, your righteous response. This spectacle of war 
comes for most, filtered and made digestible so you don't have to think 
about your pilots dropping munitions on family homes, the children with 
their skin melting, and old men with their arms blown off. Saying this 
there are various layers of parasitic influencers and desperate to go 
viral "war footage" and "gore" accounts looking to profit financially 
and socially from the show, they serve a darker element within us. For 
most tho, best to keep it to the the now customary wave of "safe for 
social media" explosions delivered endlessly via the state and 
citizenry. We all end up sat there gawking at the spectacle of millions 
of public funds being wasted in a fireball. The delighted and terrified 
masses share the medias endlessly, social divisions embed and the 
working class tears itself in many directions once more. The eternal war 
serves it's purpose in many ways.

A developing cultural battlefield
Much of this is delivered via press conferences and media pieces with an 
air of officialism but beneath this is a transparent salvo of meme 
warfare. The fact is that while memes maintain an air of childishness, 
or an excusable lack of serious tone which can be used to dismiss their 
capacity to sway opinion, as if it's "beneath" enlightened discussion, 
the fact remains that more and more their utilisation as a weapon of 
propaganda has been accepted. ICE has for a longtime be weilding memes 
to control discussion and now The White House has been gushing forth 
with an parade of pop-culture, machismo trash (curiously enough 
projecting itself not just as a rapist mass murderer, but also the 
hitman of a dictator who mass murders billions) while lower down the 
chain of speculative neoconservatives we have those holding onto meme 
politics from years ago, "Western Liberals speaking over Locals", 
expropriated from inter-leftist discourse now weaponised to undermine 
the "fundamental communists" of the Democrat party/ the entire 
population of Iran being reduced to diaspora Monarchists. Binary 
reductions and and simple ration optics, the kind utilised to great 
effect by the likes of Tommy ten names whenever civic-fascism and social 
conservativism needs a brown face on the package.

There has also been a maintenance of established narratives about how 
the collective "leftist/wokists" move on from consideration to 
consideration. They do this not out of a genuine response to a 
succession of outrages but merely following their "Islamo-Marxist" 
instructors, something that saw a big spike in popularity amongst the 
right during the Pandemic. It is just "Judeo-Bolshevism" for the 21st 
century, the latest in a endless flow of euphemistic racism.

Alongside this there has been the usual saturation of absolutist 
positioning and badjacketing. For the popularist "right" anti-war 
protests are simply "pro regime". A simple and easy binary everyone 
knows is not true, but berating someone with a lie has proven successful 
so many times now, why not? Are they still talking? Tell them they are 
anti-feminist and support rapists, terorists, brutal theocratic regimes 
they've actually been in deep opposition of for decades... When the aim 
is to present a overwhelming position either in severity or number, 
regardless of accuracy or merit, you do so with such a pace and strength 
that it becomes impossible to assert the truth, or by the time you have, 
the damage is done. Classic "gish gallop" prattle. If it's not the 
neocons and fascists on the "right", it's the authoritarians and campist 
"left" who have keenly attacked any celebration of a regimes fall, let 
alone a call to utilise the moment for revolutionary purpose , as proof 
you are an agent of the CIA and Mossad. Supposed "Marxist, Leninist" 
accounts have been keen to suggest Anarchists support the American 
Empire. The response to the Iranian network "Decolonize Anarchism" 
polemics and statements has been frankly shocking to witness.

The Eternal War.
While the joy brought on by the death of a tyrant is undeniable, we 
don't consign ourselves to such base reactionary reductions. Why this 
happened, who did it, and what is the imminent future should drive our 
ongoing assessment. Whether you call the counter politic in Iran a 
revolution, resistance or an uprising, the fact of the matter is the 
dictatorship saw multi-facetted opposition, from stateless balochs, to 
liberal democrats, monarchist, theologic rivals, kurds, communists, 
anarchists and women who just want to exist with every ounce of the 
liberty afforded to their male peers.

America and Isreal can keep blasting their way through the leadership 
but this isn't some unstable dictatorship but an entire infrastructure. 
You're not going to remove the social infrastructure of millions of 
people like this, you're only going to embed the divisions pre-existing 
and light a fire that will last decades. Everyone knows this. It's the 
playbook of our involvement in Asia, Africa, and South America.

The solutions in Iran were to be found in its people and the 
revolutionary peoples of Iran building a secure future terrifies them 
just as much as the PLO did. There, they put support being Hamas, and 
now they build a vast war zone and sit back as warlords, secessionist 
movements, and external interests, (national, corporate and militant) 
sweep in. It will be the innocent people just trying to live their 
fucking lives who will die in their multitudes.

The Iranian Regime has already named Mojtaba Khamenei as new Supreme 
Leader after his Father's death. He's also lost a son, his wife, and his 
mother. Already known as a hardliner.  This regime is deeply entrenched 
into Iranian society and will no more be removed via kinetic power alone 
than Hamas have been from Gaza or Hezbollah from Lebanon.

Kurdish groups have already formed a working alliance across five major 
groups. They are undoubtedly seeing warfighters move eastward following 
the brutal losses in North East Syria. A exestential threat to an Iran 
built on colonial borders, they present a threat to the vision held by 
the previous dictatorship and subsequently the monarchists today. They 
face a war on six fronts, with every state actor around them deeply 
entrenched in Kurdish blood.

The Monarchist movement's de facto leader exiled prince Reza Pahlavi has 
announced his intent to be Iran's transitional leader, despite having 
dubious sway in Iran itself and being openly hostile to most of the 
other political entities and communities actually in Iran right now 
fighting the IRGC.

The Balochistan ethno-nationalists, specifically The Baloch Liberation 
Army and Baloch Liberation Front and the many groups they are 
compromised off are not likely to sit idle. Some might fight against the 
American/Isreali forces hoping to appease the Iran Regime into 
subsequent concessions towards autonomy, others wil take the opportunity 
to take militant action and seize Iranian Balochistan. If they take up 
arms it will likely come with intervention from Pakistan, and 
subsequently India.

[Just prior to posting the BLF issued a statement of solidarity with the 
nacent Kurdish coalition. "This political action of yours, especially 
amid the current fragmentation of the opposition, is the finest 
practical and valuable experimental step, one that all nations of Iran 
must welcome in solidifying federalism in Iran and actively join ...[the 
BLF]firmly declares its cooperation with such a coalition"]

The Communist Party of Iran (CPi) call for a revolution. "In such 
conditions, ending the war requires overthrowing the Islamic Republic, 
and we must intensify the organized struggle to bring down this regime." 
while at the same time cautioning against the influnces of America, 
Israel, and Monarchists.

The Communist Parties of Iran (TUDEH), Israel (CPI) and the United 
States (CPUSA) issued a Joint Statement calling for regime change at the 
hands of "the action of the people and patriotic leadership".

Azerbaijan has been preparing it's military forces along the border, 
which a recently successful recidivist genocide against Armenia that got 
next to no international attention. With a large Azerbaijani population 
in Iran, the land bridge to Nakhchivan being taken through might while 
Iran is crumbling will very much be on the cards.

As the missiles continue to rain, the cheering voices will be replaced 
by tears. Whether we see a sudden grand collapse or a waxing and waning 
erosion of civil life as pockets of armed resistance grow more and more, 
there are dark times and unrelenting violence recurring vengeance and 
ethnically driven brutally as we have seen so recently in Syria, 
Ethiopia, Libya, Yemen, Myanmar and so many other places.

There is no simple narrative, no utopian vision. Simply a grim knowledge 
that the days in front of Iranians, and the wider SWANA region, are 
going to be deeply traumatic and painful. The most hopeful of outlooks 
is that the people of Iran find moments to breath and organise. Break 
down the regime yes, but not for American interests, but their own and 
find a workable framework in which they can collectively build a future 
of respectful and peaceful coexistence; a coexistence which by it's very 
nature will be opposed by the U.S. and Israel, though by this same 
nature will sap their casus belli and end the violence visited upon them 
by would-be liberators, or at the very least constrain it. As we all 
know, they don't really require a reason to visit death upon you.

I wonder if we will sit essentially apathetic, whether we'll defer 
action to a tiny handful of the brave, whether we'll once again divide 
ourselves into petty fracturous camps trying to score political points 
from sophistry, malappropriated rhetoric, and puerile political 
absolutes. Will our solidarity survive the discussion over regional 
identity, colonialist oppression, and the resistance to it?

We have to listen to the revolutionary peoples, those who reflect our 
politic dispositions and those who do not, we need to render aid and 
support (pushing the states we live in to do so) and  most that starts 
with stopping this fucking war.

The Anarchist Position.
The anarchist stands with the people and for liberty. We lean on (among 
other things) objectivity, compassion, and truth. Whether that inspires 
an individual act or a collective response, a meandering infrastructural 
campaign or a volatile moment of fire, we are driven by the same passion 
and desire. This has presented itself with a deep agreement in tone from 
across the anarchist spectrum, with first and primarily, a resurgence in 
anti-militarist calls and anti-war messaging and information dispersal. 
Building upon this are loud and clear restatements of rejection of the 
theocratic regimes of Iran, Israel, and the U.S.A.

No War But The Class War... The first response of any war (by any 
euphemism) is to pursue a cessation of military violence. Our pursuit of 
emancipation comes not through slaughter but solidarity. Antimilitarism 
and the distribution of medias and pieces have been gushing forward and 
with it calls to action not just on city streets but outside American 
postings across the UK. This is established ground for most anarchists, 
and despite various internecine bunfights, badjacketing and associated 
ire following the decision of some Anarchists (chiefly from Ukraine, 
Belarus, and Russia) to resist the genocidal invasion, and the following 
(primarily European) schism within our communities over the nature of 
political and material actions of solidarity with them.

War is a sickness, which decimates our shared resources for the 
profiteering of a few. Endless young men and women, told they'll find 
family and adventure in the armed service are turned into indoctrinated 
militants, and sent off to die for no reason. A pipeline through which 
the state holds millions under a regime favourable to "us" rather than 
"them".

It's our working class kids who are chewed up and spat out by this 
machine of unrelenting pain and suffering, and it's upon of every person 
of conscience, whether that's driven by a political notion, a faith, or 
personal amorality, to oppose and resist. We have failed this task so so 
many times already.

The highlighting of Campism...I've also seen multiple threads 
deconstructing the campist political entities who cheer on the action of 
these authoritarian states because it runs concurrent to their own 
"anti-imperalist" vision (in both directions), and ultimately the 
monarchist restoration movement both in Iran and in the Iranian 
diaspora. This isn't merely a function of Authoritarian Communists, the 
residue of this easy narrative spews into anarchist spaces too. Whether 
that's manifesting any resistance to "The West" as some liberatory force 
(tho often deferring to nuance when called out), denouncing solidarity 
with Palestinians as Israel tanks rolled into Gaza as being a proxy for 
Iranian interests, or reducing the Ukrainian resistance to invasion as 
being NATO maneuvering a pawn in their war for global supremacy. Reality 
is almost always just a wee bit more complex than this.

Some of the more disgusting reflections of this campist hyprocrisy come 
from adovcates of the "Axis of Resistance" camp in response to the 
Communist Party of Israel's statement, in which they rally against 
Imperialist aggression. Commentary such as "communist party of Israel = 
communist party of the third Reich", and appeals to Lenin's 1915 text 
"Socialism and War" being used as justification for solidarity with the 
Iranian Regime, which is apparently a great front for Communism in these 
deluded minds.  American Communist Party (ACP) top gobshite "InfraHaz" 
gave the tankie position clearly: "Go fuck yourselves you scum traitors. 
You disgrace Lenin's memory." Noteably, he is an advocate of Russia's 
war of aggression upon Ukraine.

Anarchists are not immune to propaganda nor any of the reductive 
ignorance and selective bloc-making so often utilised by those who seek 
to use such horrendous events for their own political gain. It's 
refreshing to see keen and vocal highlighting of this sophistry and 
encouragement to dig deeper and develop a nuanced perspective, driven by 
those who understand the situation in a infinitely more pragmatic manner.

Listen to the locals... there is a strong lean to listening first and 
primarily to the victims of the brutal regime. Through established lines 
of communications between organisations and individuals and to new faces 
both. The women of Iran who have maintained a vital and powerful 
struggle for existence, the ethnically minoritised communities, made 
stateless and oppressed, the working class who have for so many years 
suffered under one dictatorship and then another. These ultimately are 
the voices that matter.

The Anarchist Front has issued various statements and pieces denouncing 
the regime and Imperial aggresion, calling for, amongst other things, 
the immediate cessation of attacks and the full protection of civilians 
under international humanitraian laws. They have raise the issue of the 
threat of mass execution of detainees from the January 2026 protests and 
even in the midst of everything going on, have taken time to highlight 
International Womens' Day.

Decolonize Anarchism has issued polemics, rejecting the oppressive hand 
of any state and celebrating Irans revolutionary peoples. "This moment 
belongs to those who resisted in the streets, in the factories, in the 
classrooms, in the prisons. It belongs to the executed, the tortured, 
the disappeared.[It belongs]to the workers who struck, the women 
murdered for defiance, the youth who faced bullets with bare hands. 
Their memory lives in every rupture in authoritarian power." They have 
subsequently been targets of a barrage of hostility from Imperialists 
and Regime supporters both by people who cannot read and have only 
simple binaries with which to understand the world.

The Kurdish Anarchist Forum (KAF)  continue to share opinion pieces from 
comrades, one noting the perceived silence and inaction of the wider 
Anarchist community around the world and calling for a greater 
antimiliterist voice, another confronting the organisational failings 
which have brought Iran to this point "... the current crisis lies in 
the growing power of counter-revolutionary forces that exploit the war 
to advance their own agendas - reshaping society along authoritarian 
ideological lines, normalizing violence, and paving the way for a 
renewed cycle of despotism - all amid the absence of cohesive and 
unified revolutionary forces. At the same time, we are witnessing 
behavioral and political fragmentation within the opposition, with some 
factions choosing to endorse the war or actively participate in it by 
supporting one of its parties, thereby deepening the political and moral 
crisis"

[WIP LIST OF STATEMENTS AND ARTICLES FROM SWANA AND INTERNATIONAL]

A Short Reflection on War.
I'm was trying to work on a piece about the last atrocity when this next 
one began. I don't speak on behalf of any organisation I am with. I 
don't share my stream of conscious ramble (mildly collated and 
organised) with the attitude that my thoughts are particularly 
important. I am not an academic with lifetime of study of the subject, 
I'm not an author with the capacity to craft my words to plead and 
influence. I am just another anarchist sharing an opinion from distant 
safety. As I trying to reduce this text from 10,000 words to something 
more manageable (I failed), I watch a briefing with SoW Hegeseth. He 
stands there with the glee of a child as he states they will be "Flying 
over their capital. Death and destruction from the sky all day long." It 
stopped me mid sentance. I've heard this bellicose rhetoric before.

It reminds me of the first moments I found my anti-militerism. Watching 
in numbness the live broadcasts over the Baghdad during the 'shock and 
awe' campaign. A car sped along the road only to disappear, engulfed in 
a blur of death. A weapon produced in Britain to the tune of hundreds of 
thousands, used to snuff out some random lives, for nothing.

For my generation war was a video game, an action movie and dopamine 
kick. Liveleak footage of absolute brutality, pouring out over the 
internet, desensitised and numb. Distanced from the truth of war "peace 
through superior firepower" actually meant. I was very much another 
working class conscript in the war for our minds, all too happy to 
believe in the adventurism and nobility of the armed forces. Programmed 
to believe with every ounce that the good guys, that's us, would always 
win. Sure our boys would be emotional scarred, but with grit and 
brotherhood, we'll save the day and the world. Fuck, I was ready to sign 
up and drive tanks a few months before this, though thankfully, my 
principles got in the way and I refused to lie my way through an oath of 
allegiance to the Queen.

A week later I would read Robert Fisk's piece in The Independent.

"It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, 
the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a 
garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her 
three small children in their still-smouldering car.... Who dares call 
this 'collateral damage'? "

Fisk's relative merit as a journalist aside, the report, and that of 
many others, chilled me to the core. As the Eternal War filled our 
screens, so did the atrocities and the unrelenting waves of pain we had 
allowed to happen in our name. The best we could do was march and pat 
ourselves on the back, and I hadn't even done that. I had been a fool. 
While I didn't care much for the obvious lies about Weapons of Mass 
Destruction, I knew Iraqis, Iranians, and Kurdish people who had 
suffered under Saddam, and I believed that intervention was needed. If a 
war to remove him was needed then sure, I'd rather it was some 
fantastical notion of the UN Peacekeeping forces I held at the time, but 
heck, I was positive our boys were professionals, diligent, and driven 
by a sense of justice. I was wrong.

The Iraq Body Count recorded 6,700 civilian deaths as a result of action 
taken by US led forces during the 'invasion phase,' including a 
shock-and-awe bombing campaign. 14,007 in year one. 112,017 - 122,438 
civilian deaths from violence between March 2003 and March 2013. It 
means nothing to no one but myself but I will always hold it against 
myself that I supported that war. Twenty years later and despite what 
has been said about my solidarity with the peoples of Rojava, Ukraine, 
Palestine, Myanmar and so on in their conflict with Imperialist 
invasions, Juntas, and Genocidal despots, I am and always will be deeply 
entrenched in opposition to war. Not this or that war, but war.

I look to the terrifying spectacle the American state is delighted in 
and shudder to my core. Tehran has a population density of 12,052/km2.To 
give you an idea, London's is 5,782/km2. In this dense and ancient city, 
there is no such thing as "precision strikes" and it's becoming more and 
more evident that no such thing is even being attempted with footage of 
vast explosions pouring forth. Schools, hospitals, homes, and much 
needed infrastructure, little more than "collateral damage" and "victims 
of conflict" to these warhawks, who uniformly blame Iran, mostly for 
just existing it seems. On Wednesday they destroyed the Red Crescent 
headquarters, you could not have the intent made any clearer. None of 
the states involved are concerned with peace, but vengeance politics to 
maintain antagonism with the regional threats to their hegemony. I 
suppose a lasting peace for the people of Iran is too "woke".

To the militant mind, blood deserves blood, an endless cut through 
history as authoritarians, states, and fanatics commit atrocity after 
atrocity. The Sabra and Shatila massacre in response to the Damour 
massacre in response to the Karantina massacre. Vengeance politics 
leading to endless reprisals and it's almost always the innocent peoples 
of some community, deemed ontologically evil by the collective rational 
of men possessed with self-interest, who suffer.

Away from such atrocities you have the maximalism that excuses military 
actions out of scale with any tactical and strategic necessity and 
beyond even the norms of war, mass murder of those who don't even pose a 
threat. No warning and no aid rendered. "War crime!" is a term people 
often turn to, with the same tired manner as appeals to the 
"Constitution" or some other document: Written by them, ignored by them, 
used by them when it suits". The "laws of war", an array of often 
contradictory texts are nothing more than a framework in which states 
elect to operate within when slaughter their working class.

"We're at war" the vultures cry. It's the excuse for any action their 
side takes. Whether it's tanks rolling over unarmed Palestinians, Drones 
flying into hotels in Bahrain, unarmed Russians being turned into pink 
mist by a DJI Mavic, a grenade and some gaffer tape. "He was the enemy, 
fuck him". Every action acceptable before the drumhead of your 
compatriot's popular opinion.

So many otherwise right-minded people get joy from watching footage of 
IDF conscripts getting domed by Hamas. "They are colonial settlers, fuck 
'em". Dare to feel bad for the poor basterd and it's the same machismo 
that drives the American, Isreali and Iranian industries of death which 
responds. "Stop being a pussy". In multiple groups, anarchist and 
"leftist" comrades, insurrectionaries, revolutionaries, academics and 
otherwise gawk at the spectacle. Social media posts from "War Monitor" 
and "Popular Front" sit side by side with footage from the Iranian and 
American states. Does life mean so little? I'm no better, I share 
footage too. "Holy shit have you seen this?", I convince myself it's a 
mere horror which drives me. I don't know that is always the case, I've 
felt the grim voyeuristic creep into these past few years of endless 
drone footage and it distrubs me deeply.

I hope I/we can do better.  I hope we share their words and postive 
actions more than we do dramatic footage of great pain. I hope that we 
share their words whether they reflect ours or not. I hope we listen. I 
hope they find a way to build bastions of solidarity and community from 
the devastation they have been thrown into so recklessly, and that the 
multitude of communities, cohorts, organisations, and peoples can find a 
way to a bright future built together despite how it started. It wont be 
any "Anarchistic vision" but hopefully something that provides for 
liberty, autonomy, and a genuine democractic existance to flourish. I 
hope if they call for aid we provide it.

I worry that we are already too late. Our systematic apathy to the ever 
swelling tumour of fascism in the halls of governance has taken us to 
this next phase of it's inevitable navigation. How long will we 
collectively turn a tired eye to imperialist endeavours, genocides, and 
profiteering "fury".  We are failing and innocent people around the 
world are being brutally murdered because of it. How much longer will we 
remain to inactive, entrenched in petty disputes as our would-be masters 
slaughter the working class, directly and by proxy, in distant lands in 
our name?

If you are a person of action. Act. If you're in a union, swing it into 
a response. If you're an academic, write the papers, make the case. If 
you are a creative, make the materials that share the voice of the 
revolutionary peoples and of peace. Speak up in your locality, in your 
spaces, and in your region.

If you have capacity to lend material aid in the coming days, do.

Listen out for what the comrades in Iran call for, amplify them, and 
respond.

Solidarity with the revolutionary peoples of Iran.
Jin, Jîyan, Azadî

Peter Ó'Máille

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