A-Infos (en) France, UCL Press Release - Iran: Democracy Will Not Come from Bombs (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Iran is the new target of Israeli-American imperialism. Civilians are 
dying by the hundreds. Khamenei is dead, but only the struggles of the 
people can bring about democracy.
This Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a 
missile attack against Iran, burying the country under bombs. Like a bad 
joke, the pretext for this war is once again to bring democracy by 
helping the Iranian people overthrow the Islamic Republic. The lie is 
too blatant, compounded by fallacious accusations of an imminent nuclear 
attack by Iran. The United States has even claimed to be attacking only 
military infrastructure and Israel to be targeting only the leadership. 
Currently, of the 1,190 deaths reported by the Human Rights Activist 
Iran association, half of the identified victims in Iran are civilians. 
The bombings killed the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali 
Khamenei, but civilians, forced to hide from the bombs, are unable to 
work towards overthrowing the regime.

An ally of the US government, Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah of 
Iran, who is in exile in the United States, now presents himself in the 
West as a spokesperson for the opposition to the regime. But in Iran, 
support for a return to the monarchy is marginal because the crimes and 
authoritarianism of the previous regime have not been forgotten. Yet, in 
France, as elsewhere in Western countries, the government and the media, 
both public and private, present the return of a monarchy as a 
democratic advance in Iran.

While we obviously do not mourn Khamenei's death, let us not forget that 
his grip on power was not absolute, and was even waning, and that the 
Iranian regime is complex and has been entrenched for over 40 years. 
Only the people can overcome this by building their own alternative to 
the Islamic Republic. But no one is fooled; the imperialist forces are 
waging this war to force the regime's hand or install a new one under 
their control, not to spread democracy.

The narrative surrounding a possible regime change should not, 
therefore, make us forget what is truly at stake: the reorganization of 
the Middle East by the United States and its allies, particularly to 
benefit Israeli regional hegemony. As in Venezuela, this operation also 
coincides with the US desire to weaken China's allies-China being the 
primary customer of Iranian oil-and to control oil and gas production 
and flows in the long term. Let us not forget the lucrative profits that 
the arms industry can generate in such a situation.

The genocide in Palestine, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the fall 
of the Assad regime at the end of 2024 have weakened Iran's allies, one 
of the last regional actors opposed to US imperialism. In order to 
maintain its dominant status in the Middle East, the Zionist state now 
seems engaged in a perpetual war against the various countries and 
peoples of the region.

UCL condemns this imperialist aggression and the massacres it entails. 
No external bombing has ever brought democracy, and the people of Iran, 
whether Kurdish, Persian, or Baloch, know this all too well. Only those 
safe from weapons can rejoice in a freedom promised by war. The 
supporters of the Pahlavi monarchy are rubbing their hands with glee, 
but no tyrant, no nationalism, will bring peace to Iran.

Down with all tyrants! Down with imperialism! Long live the struggle of 
the people of Iran!

Libertarian Communist Union, March 5, 2026

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Iran-la-democratie-ne-viendra-pas-des-bombes
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