The war for regime change in Iran is also known as the war that can’t be won. That’s why, up to now, no US President dared try it. The Trump regime has now started its second war against Iran in a 9-month span. Trump and his cronies claimed the 12-day war with Iran last June destroyed their military’s nuclear ambitions and that America was now safe due to this armed intervention.

Yet America is again at war, when Iran poses no threat to US security. The insecurity in the region is entirely due to non-stop US-Israel imperialist aggression, which has finally provoked Trump’s decision to strike Iran again. This hawkish US foreign policy has much support among ruling elites on both sides of the aisle, but little-to-no support among the remaining layers of the population– from professional class to working class. To the American ruling class, that vast divide is the political danger in what Trump has done.

All the political pundits on every network are “wait & see,” when asked what will happen next. As a viewer I ask, “What are you so-called experts paid for? This is a crisis and you can’t tell us anything we don’t already know.” Click.

What’s going to happen? First, oil prices are going to rise dramatically, and everyone knows that means the price of everything from gas to groceries is going up. When you add that to Trump’s tariffs, it’s a recipe for economic, social & political disaster. I suppose that is why none of the pundits want to speak to this.

The Democrats are finished, as they threw in their lot with Trump’s crypto-fascism long ago. Democrats support ICE, DHS, the FBI & CIA, all of which are authoritarian secret police agencies that are above the law. These agencies protect the Jeffery Epstein clients because they now take their marching orders from one of his top clients: Donald J Trump.

The Democrats as a caucus support the crypto industry, perhaps the biggest scam in financial history. The Democrats support the military action Trump has taken in Iran, they only object to being left out of the loop. This consolidation of political, economic & military power into one individual has those on the fake left (Bernie Sanders, AOC, etc) a bit concerned. These near-dead liberals may be forced to organize a one-day protest to let off some steam. Their motto will be: Vote Democrat in the mid-terms.

Democrats operate in that area of circular logic which insists that if the Republicans are exposed & largely discredited as Nazis, then supporting the Democrats is the only “realistic” alternative for democracy. Nevermind the Democrats have enabled & collaborated with Trump all along. It’s getting harder to fool the public when the veneer of democracy has been violently torn away by Zionist genocide in Gaza & ICE terrorism & murder in Minneapolis.

None of the official narratives that apologize for war crimes & crimes against humanity are holding up on social media. The kids can see that Trump is lying and that Congress, the Supreme Court, and the corporate media all allow him to get away with it– day after day after day. What the kids now know is that the Democrats are political accomplices in Trump’s criminality and largely suspect that all this corruption stems from capitalism.

President Trump is simply what the ruling class needs & demands– a dictator. Dictators are toppled by the international working class when their regimes of authoritarian terror & cultural vandalism become so bankrupt & malignant that no one will fight for them anymore. Defections from fascism are happening on different levels. The American working class has already rejected Trump’s attempts to establish a fascist regime in permanence. Popular resistance to ICE terror testifies to that. Republican prospects in the upcoming mid-term elections also speak loudly to fascism’s existential political crisis.

This war on Iran is Trump’s attempt to shift the narrative and start a world war which would allow him to exercise martial law and declare himself President for life. History “experts” on major news networks fail to make these obvious connections, which makes one wonder how much they really studied. How much do they understand about fascism? They barely use the term, much less attempt to draw obvious historical parallels between Adolph Hitler & Donald Trump.

Below is the bulk of George Stephanopoulos’ interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi this morning on ABC’s ‘This Week.’ It has been slighted edited for clarity. This interview can teach the international working class much about how nationalist class interests affect the news and turn it into propaganda by distorting facts & eliminating historical truth from the discussion. For once, someone was allowed to reply to this.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Who’s in charge of Iran right now?

ABBAS ARAGHCHI, IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: There is a transitional council of the president, the head of judiciary and one jurist of the Guardian Council. These three would decide — are in charge right now.

STEPHANOPOULOS: President Trump issued a warning overnight, warning the Iranians not to retaliate. And he said, “they better not do that. If they do, we will hit them with a force that has never been seen before.” How do you respond?

ARAGHCHI: Well, I don’t think any leader of a country has the right to say so. You know, we are defending ourselves and we have every right, every legitimate right to defend ourselves. What the United States is doing is an act of aggression. What we are doing is the act of self-defense. There are huge differences between these two. So, one should tell, you know, the president of the United States, do not attack, do not — you know, make any aggression against another country. But nobody can tell us that you don’t have any right to defend yourselves. We are defending ourselves whatever it takes, and we see no limit for ourselves to defend our people, to protect our people. Just look, yesterday, they hit — they struck against a school. So far, 148 girls, students have been killed and this is a big massacre. This is a war crime, and you say we don’t have any right to defend ourselves?

STEPHANOPOULOS: You say you want to protect your people, but your own regime, according to the estimates we’ve seen over the last several months, is responsible for the killing of up to 30,000 of Iranian — Iranian citizens.

ARAGHCHI: We have already answered this accusation. You know, let me to explain. We were faced with a terrorist operation. It was first protesters, demonstrations — demonstrations which were legal. According to our constitutions, our people have the right to protest and to go for gatherings and demonstrations. They did it from 28 December to 7 January. We had legal protests. Everything was fine, and nobody was killed.

And then on 8 January to 10, we [were] faced with a terrorist operation. Armed elements were added to the — to this — you know, question, and they started to shoot at our police forces, our security forces and then they started to shoot at ordinary people, even to protesters. Why? Because they wanted to increase the number of deaths.

Since the president of the United States has — had already said that if there are killings, he will come to — he would come to rescue. So, they wanted to actually drag him to this question. So, they started to kill people. So that was a terrorist operation for three days and the number of killings were exactly 3,117. And the names of those victims, all of those victims have been already published by us, together with their identification number. If anybody claims that the number is more, as you said, 30,000 — 50,000, whatever, please show one evidence. Please add one more name to the list we have already published.

If somebody shoots at a police department officer in the United States, how do you react? Do you just, you know, give him permission to do whatever he wants because he is a protester? No.

And so many people were killed, you know, blindly by these terrorist elements. Because they were ordered by Israel, at that time, they were instructed to kill people and give a big number of killings to the president of the United States. We have their voices, their instructions, which coming from Mossad, from outside, to these terrorist elements, who are ordering them to kill police officers, if not police, kill the boy and girl in front of you, because they wanted killings.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Is a negotiated settlement with the United States still possible?

ARAGHCHI: Well, you answer this question. We negotiated with the United States twice in the past 12 months. And in both cases, they attacked us in the middle of negotiation. And that has become a very bitter experience for us. In last June, we were negotiating. We had five rounds of negotiations, and we had already fixed the sixth round for 15 June when the Israelis attacked us, and then the U.S. joined the attack.

And this time, we had three rounds. Last Thursday, we had a very good discussion, very good talks in Geneva. Both Iranian and the U.S. delegation were happy at the end of seven hours of negotiations. And I can go into the details of what we agreed and how a deal was at our reach. And when we concluded, the Omani foreign minister, who was the impartial intermediator between us, he concluded by saying in his post that we made significant progress this time. We were able to come to a good understanding on some of our differences.

Some other differences were left for the next meeting, and we decided to go for Vienna, to send our technical teams to Vienna on Monday, which means tomorrow [3-2-26], to go to the IAEA, and with the help of the International Atomic Energy Organization, try to find technical solutions for the political problems. And we both believed, I mean, both delegations believed that this is possible. So, a deal was at our reach, and we left Geneva happily with the understanding that we can reach a deal next time we meet.

And it was very unfortunate that those who are against peace, against diplomacy, against negotiation, when they understood that diplomacy is going on well, they decided to spoil it, and they created a buildup in the media, you know, against the Islamic Republic of Iran, against the desires of us, against Iran. And they made lots of accusations against us. They made — they created false information and disinformation, and they finally get, today, to what they wanted. They dragged President Trump, they convinced President Trump to attack us unprovoked and unwarranted.

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