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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) effectively endorsed the US-Israeli war against Iran Wednesday with the passage of Resolution 2817 (2026). The text “condemns in the strongest terms” Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the Gulf states, while saying nothing about the nearly two-week-long bombardment of the country of 90 million people by American imperialism and its Israeli ally.

 

United Nations condemns Iran’s self-defence strikes amid American imperialism’s war of extermination

BY Jordan Shilton

 

The resolution’s pretext is that Iran launched retaliatory strikes against seven countries—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. But all seven host US military bases actively being used to wage the war on Iran—from the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, to Al Dhafra in the UAE. These states are not neutral bystanders. They are, in effect, combatants. Iranian strikes on their territories were launched in self-defence and have killed approximately 11 civilians. The US and Israel have killed over 1,300 people in Iran alone.

The resolution did not even note the fact that the United States, led by the fascist Donald Trump, launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, a historically oppressed country, on February 28. Ably assisted by its Zionist ally, Washington carried out within a matter of hours the targeted assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and dozens of other leading political and military personnel of an ostensibly sovereign state. 

Within less than two weeks of carpet bombing, American and Israeli missiles have slaughtered thousands of Iranian civilians, including over 160 children in a single strike on a girls’ school. The war criminals have struck dozens of hospitals and schools, sought to disrupt energy supplies and poison the environment by destroying oil refineries, and forced millions of people to flee their homes in Iran and Lebanon, where the Zionist regime has also undertaken air and ground operations. None of this rated so much as a mention.

The resolution passed by 13 votes to 0. Reading as if the UN representatives had simply transcribed American imperialism’s war aims, the press release announcing passage of the resolution stated, “It specifically condemned Iran’s attacks against residential areas and civilian objects—demanding their immediate cessation—while also demanding that Tehran halt its threats, provocations and actions aimed at interfering with maritime trade, as well as support to proxy groups across the region.”

Countries voting in favour of this outrageous document included the permanent members Britain, France and the United States, as well as non-permanent members Bahrain, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Greece, Latvia, Liberia, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia.

Particularly significant is the fact that Russia and China, both permanent members of the UNSC and thus in a position to veto the resolution, chose instead to abstain and allow it to pass. In so doing, they handed American imperialism political backing for its war of annihilation against Iran. In a miserable face-saving exercise, Russia tabled a second resolution, which it knew would never pass, calling for an end to the war and a diplomatic solution. Only four out of 15 members could bring themselves to support it.

This pathetic performance flows from the social nature and interests of these two capitalist regimes. Despite NATO’s systematic encirclement of the country and provocation of the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin still believes that a compromise with Washington that recognises the Russian oligarchy’s “right” to exploit its own working class and control a sphere of influence is possible. 

By backing Washington’s demolition of Iran and the plundering of its resources, the Kremlin, operating on the old Stalinist mantra of “peaceful coexistence” with imperialism, hopes it can cut a deal on Ukraine and US investment with Trump.

As for the Chinese government headed by Xi Jinping, a major consideration in the immediate term is Trump’s impending visit to Beijing at the end of this month. In order to maintain the prospect of Chinese capitalism securing an economic arrangement with the US, the Stalinist regime is more than willing to provide a diplomatic victory to the war criminal Trump and at the expense of its ostensible ally, Iran.

But the fantasies shared by the ruling cliques in Beijing and Moscow are incompatible with the imperatives of American imperialism. A new partition of the globe and its resources among the major powers is well underway, and the US is not about to peacefully accept any challenge to its hegemonic position. On the contrary, Washington is sending a message to Beijing and Moscow that they are next on the hit list.

For more than three decades, Washington has sought to offset its accelerating economic decline by deploying its still overwhelming military superiority in a series of bloody wars of aggression. Continuing this course, American imperialism’s war on Iran aims in the first place to eliminate the main regional obstacle to US dominance over the Middle East, a key energy-exporting region that also is strategically located for trade routes between Asia and Europe.

However, the war’s more fundamental goal is the further strategic and economic isolation of Russia and China, with the latter in particular depending to a significant extent on cheap Iranian oil imports. The war began less than two months after Washington’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the installation of a pliant puppet in Caracas, which was until January 2026 another major oil exporter to China and is now being turned into a fiefdom of the American energy conglomerates.

All of the imperialist powers have today cast aside any remaining restraints imposed by international law and diplomacy following the horrors of the Second World War. As the World Socialist Web Site explained over two years ago, “All the ‘red lines’ that demarcate civilization from barbarism are being effaced.” The war of annihilation against Iran, which with Wednesday’s vote now has received a stamp of approval from over 140 governments through their co-sponsoring of Resolution 2817, was preceded by Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. This slaughter was backed by the imperialist powers in North America and Europe, who not only supplied the Zionist butchers with weaponry but systematically suppressed all forms of opposition to genocide at home.

Trump, at the head of the world’s most powerful imperialist state, gives the most grotesque and repulsive expression to imperialist barbarism. His wars of aggression abroad go hand in hand with his operation to establish a fascist dictatorship at home. 

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/13/wppu-m13.html

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

GUSNOTE: FROM NOW ON, I REFUSE TO TALK ABOUT THE "EPSTEIN CLASS", IT WILL BE MENTIONED AS THE EPSTEIN GANG...

cholicalition....

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Trump PANICS ALL WEEKEND as he CAN’T ESCAPE WAR

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

yuans......

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IRAN’S OIL GAMBIT: Tehran Challenges Dollar With Yuan Oil Trade, China Cashes In | US-Iran War

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

IRAN: The "War of the Sky" and the twelve days that shook capitalism 

After twelve days of unprecedented technological intensity, the conflict between Iran and the Israeli-American axis is no longer confined to the airspace or the stratosphere. Behind the military communiqués and spectacular images of nighttime interceptions lies a more fundamental reality: the war is shifting to central bank balance sheets, the production chains of the military-industrial complex, and energy markets. In this less visible but decisive material dimension, a dynamic is emerging. By relying on a low-cost saturation strategy, the Iranian industrial apparatus is managing to shift the centre of gravity of the conflict and expose the financial vulnerability of the imperial structure.

 

What appears at first glance to be a technological battle is in reality a confrontation between antagonistic economic structures and production logics. The Israeli-American arsenal represents the most advanced form of militarised capitalism, characterised by extremely sophisticated systems, the product of decades of state-funded research and colossal profits captured by arms monopolies. Conversely, Iran's strategy is based on forced industrialisation, marked by sanctions, which has led to a focus on the mass production of simple, robust, and inexpensive weapons. This difference, which could once have been interpreted as a disadvantage, is transformed, within the context of a war of attrition, into a structural advantage.

 

The Shahed-136 drone offers the most striking illustration of this. Produced at an estimated cost of around twenty thousand dollars, it forces the adversary to deploy interception systems whose unit price can range from tens of thousands to nearly a million dollars. Each wave of missiles launched into the sky thus imposes an asymmetric economic equation: to neutralise a relatively rudimentary weapon, the imperial defense apparatus must consume disproportionate technological and financial resources. From a materialist perspective, this dynamic recalls a simple law of industrial warfare: when the reproduction of the defensive system is more costly than that of the attack, the equilibrium eventually breaks down.

 

Data circulating among military analysts already suggests increasing strain on Western stockpiles. The SM-3 missiles used for exo-atmospheric interception are produced in limited quantities, their manufacture requiring highly specialised components and complex supply chains. Yet, in less than two weeks, their consumption has reportedly exceeded a rate corresponding to several months of production. In other words, air warfare reveals a classic contradiction of advanced capitalism: extreme technological sophistication is accompanied by a low capacity for rapid reproduction, because each unit represents a massive concentration of skilled labor, rare raw materials, and fixed capital.

 

This material strain is immediately reflected in the financial sphere. According to several converging estimates from banking and strategic analyses, the daily commitment of the imperialist axis represents more than two billion dollars per day. The American share, concentrated on the use of naval and anti-missile systems, is approaching one billion dollars daily. For Israel, whose economy is heavily dependent on the technology sector and international investment, the war effort exceeds one billion dollars per day, already causing a noticeable slowdown in certain high-tech segments.

In a globalised capitalist economy, these figures are not merely budgetary abstractions. They have immediate repercussions in the circulation of capital. Extraordinary military spending implies additional debt issuance, increased mobilisation of credit, and growing pressure on financial markets. This mechanism, long known to Marxist economists, illustrates how war acts as an accelerator of the system's internal contradictions. Far from simply constituting productive expenditure, the war economy tends to shift resources toward sectors that do not directly contribute to the expanded reproduction of global social capital.

 

The third front in this conflict lies in the energy markets. On March 11, the International Energy Agency announced the exceptional release of approximately 400 million barrels from global strategic reserves. Such a decision, rarely seen on this scale, aims to contain the surge in oil prices caused by tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime corridor through which roughly one-fifth of global oil consumption passes.

 

At first glance, this intervention seems to demonstrate the ability of international institutions to stabilise the market. Yet, it also reveals a structural fragility. Strategic reserves are not a source of production, but a temporary buffer designed to absorb shocks. Their massive use amounts to consuming today energy security intended for future crises. In the case of the United States, whose strategic oil reserves have been a pillar of energy security for decades, this decision can be interpreted as a short-term sacrifice intended to avoid a sharp rise in domestic prices.

 

Even with this injection of oil into the market, inflationary effects are already beginning to spread. The cost of maritime freight has increased dramatically in less than two weeks, with some indicators suggesting an increase of over 100 percent. However, the contemporary global economy relies on extremely tight supply chains, optimised to minimise inventories and accelerate capital turnover. In this system, any sustained disruption to a major energy zone acts as a cost multiplier, gradually impacting all goods.

 

From a Marxist perspective, the situation highlights a central contradiction of imperial hegemony. Dominant states possess undeniable technological superiority and considerable military power, but this power rests on an economic system that demands the permanent stability of trade, financial, and energy flows. A protracted war in a strategic space like the Persian Gulf threatens precisely this stability.

 

Thus, on the twelfth day of the conflict, a provisional conclusion begins to emerge. Western technological superiority, while still real on a tactical level, clashes with an increasingly questionable economic rationale within the context of a war of attrition. Iran is not necessarily seeking to conquer territory or inflict a classic military defeat. Rather, its strategy consists of demonstrating that an imperial system based on costly technologies and fragile supply chains can be brought to its knees by relatively simple means.

 

In this perspective, the “war from above” takes on a broader meaning. It is not merely a series of aerial confrontations, but the expression of a struggle between development models and economic structures. The Empire finds itself facing a difficult dilemma. Refusing to fully support its Israeli ally would weaken its alliance structure and its geopolitical credibility. Continuing the escalation, on the other hand, implies assuming increasing financial and energy costs that risk fuelling inflationary pressures and deepening the debt crisis.

 

In the history of capitalism, moments when military power and the economic base cease to evolve at the same pace often herald major turning points. The question posed by these twelve days of conflict therefore extends far beyond the Middle Eastern theatre. It touches on the more general problem of reproducing hegemony in a world where material balances are rapidly shifting, and where imperial domination, in order to maintain itself, must mobilise ever-increasing resources.

 

Algiers, March 11, 2026

Collective "ECHOES OF LIFE HERE BELOW"

https://www.legrandsoir.info/iran-la-guerre-du-ciel-et-les-douze-jours-qui-ont-ebranle-le-capital.html