NO TO A NEW WAR!

Statement of the Central Committee of the AUCPB in connection with the crisis over Iran

The explosive situation in the Middle East at the end of last year has escalated to the limit: The U.S. and other Western countries accuse Iran of secret nuclear weapon development. IAEA experts, controlled by the United States, declared to the world that Tehran's nuclear program allegedly was initially military-oriented and continues to evolve in the same way.

Despite the fact that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his speech on September 22, 2011 at the 66th session of UN General Assembly rostrum, dismissed the charges, once again, officially announcing the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program, and blamed for all the latest international military conflicts on the U.S. and its allies, the imperialist countries of the West and Zionist Israel continue to escalate the situation in the Persian Gulf.

On January 5th 2012, the international media reported the decision the EU to join the U.S. sanctions to impose an embargo on oil imports from Iran into the EU (the final decision will be made January 30). Such actions of the imperialist powers and the rulers of the world Zionist circles are aimed at strangling the Iranian economy and the desire to bring to their knees the proud Iranian people.

In response, Iran has already declared that it would cut off oil shipments along the strategically important Strait of Hormuz (through which the 40% of marine oil exports, including into Europe and the U.S.) in the case of sanctions against the Iranian oil sector. In the adjacent area to the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has carried out a 10-day naval, during which new missiles of various classes were tested.

The USA, in turn, introduced into the training area in the Gulf its own carrier fleet, led by the aircraft carrier "John Stennis," which at the end of exercise left the region. Earlier in the Indian Ocean entered a carrier battle group led by the nuclear aircraft carrier "Carl Vinson" and sent to the Arabian Sea. Great Britain sent to the Persian Gulf its most modern and powerful destroyer "Dering." Israel and the U.S. in the coming weeks, plan to hold an unprecedented scale joint military exercise on missile defence, code named "Austere Challenge 12” (currently postponed on 16 Jan –Fb). There's no doubt that over Iran hang really dark clouds. This is evidenced by the last interview with U.S. Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Armed Forces Gen. Martin Dempsey of an imminent attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in case of disobedience by Iran to the dictates of Western powers.

The situation is exacerbated by the day and ready to get out of control at any moment, threatening to escalate into a war with unpredictable consequences, as even state officials say of those countries preparing for aggression: U.S., Israel and Britain.

The reasons for the next injection of war hysteria in the Middle East are rooted primarily in the exacerbation of contradictions in the capitalist world. The global economic crisis that began in 2008 with the U.S. mortgage crisis is not abating. Moreover, all signs of recession in the economies of the Western imperialist powers threaten to escalate the crisis in an even more devastating one than the crisis of 1929 - 1933's. Characteristically, this crisis increasingly encompasses the highly state-monopolist U.S. economy and the EU countries. Decreased production and increased unemployment in many capitalist countries are intertwined with such serious upheaval of the world capitalist economy as foreign exchange, energy and raw material crises.

The global crisis threatens the whole system of imperialism, in which the developed Western countries profit by plundering other nations. Particularly afraid of losing their dominant position in the world are the Zionist and American imperialists. As you know, the United States of America are parasitic in way of life, profiting by an unlimited issue of paper dollars, with which they acquire the necessary goods and raw materials. The global "currency" dollar is not backed up by anything other than the might of the U.S. military.

Military spending and war are the only way for the imperialist powers to rescue their economies from total bankruptcy and collapse. In addition, the Zionist circles, holding the main wealth of the U.S., expect a war to strengthen its dominant position in the world, drowning the rising competition, while burning empty dollars in the furnace of military spending, to prevent the collapse of the U.S. economy which is fraught with social upheavals.

After crushing Iran's desire for independent development by military force, the United States will have the opportunity to establish full control over the oil-bearing region of the Middle East. Suffice to say that the puppet governments of oil producing countries in the Persian Gulf have long followed in the wake of U.S. policy, as the previously recalcitrant Iraq defeated, and its oil fields are now working under the supervision of American monopolists.

In this chain of actions of the U.S. imperialists in the possession of control over energy resources of the world and to dominate the world, there follow the previously provoked by Western intelligence agencies "orange revolutions" in North Africa and the Middle East, which the bourgeois political scientists call the "Arab Spring". Among these acts of interference by the Western imperialists in the internal affairs of Arab countries, the most bloody act of naked aggression was against Libya, where they mercilessly killed thousands of civilians and the legitimate leaders of the Libyan government, headed by Muammar Gaddafi. There are continued attempts by the West, despite the thousands of victims, to shift Syria's legitimate government of Bashar Assad. Truly we are witnessing yet more fangs of imperialism, when oil becomes more expensive than human blood. With this, the implementation by the West of "orange revolutions" in the Arab East, at the same time should be regarded as a kind of "cleansing" of the rear before a planned war with Iran.

The Zionist circles in the U.S. and Israel are well aware that if Iran does acquire nuclear weapons, then their dictate in the region will be possibly limited, and so the imperialist aggressors have learned well their lessons against socialist DPRK. So first and foremost, we can expect military strikes on Iran's underground nuclear facilities.

Subjecting Iran to its domination is the intermediate objective in the chain of the global challenges of the U.S. imperialists for world domination. Their main goal remains the same - the elimination of Russia as an independent state and the suppression of its main competitor at this point in the economic sphere - China.

There is no doubt in the anti-Russian orientation of the U.S. missile defence system in Europe by virtually all independent experts. Setting up a similar missile defence system in Iran, the U.S. will have closed off its chain of anti-missile bases against the heart of Russia - its European part. In addition, the deployment of American troops to the southern underbelly of Russia from the Caucasus is fraught with the establishment of complete U.S. domination over the Caucasus republics, including over a member of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation), Armenia and the final destabilization in the North Caucasus republics and subsequent rejection of Russia by the entire southern region.

In case of successful operations in Iran, the U.S. achieves another goal - they can place China's economy feeding off Iranian oil (China buys about 20% of all crude oil that Iran exports) on starvation rations, then with that, frustrate plans by the Chinese government of a gross domestic product output of China in 2020 reaching first place in the world.

However, the danger of all these plans by the American hawks lies in that a regional conflict in the Middle East could escalate into a third world war with nuclear weapons and the fatal consequences for all mankind. Moreover, the degree of danger of a military conflict is increased by the outbreak in the U.S. of a presidential race for the presidency, in which the current administration of Democrats, led by the "peacemaker” Obama, in order not to fall behind on scoring in the "protection of national interests of America" from Republican hawks, traditionally making warlike speeches can go to the most insane move.

The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks is strongly opposed to the aggression being prepared by U.S. forces and their allies against the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as Western interference in the internal affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic.

We stand in solidarity with the peoples of Iran and Syria, which uphold the independence of their countries to the threat of aggressive aspirations of the imperialist and Zionist circles in the West.

We urge all peace-loving forces in the world to create an anti-imperialist front in their own countries and showing solidarity, to speak out against the outbreak of another war, fraught with the possibility to grow into an apocalyptic third world war with nuclear weapons!

N.A. Andreeva
General Secretary of the CC AUCPB
12 January, 2012, Leningrad