SOME years ago I wrote a 300-page biography of Ruhollah Khomeini, as I wanted to present the political. social and economic aspects of Revolutionary Iran as I saw them during the 1970s and 1980s. With modern-day Tehran currently trading blows with the genocidal monsters who control Occupied Palestine, I thought I would make it perfectly clear that as an Anarchist I remain sceptical of any war involving nation-states.

The current Iranian government is not the uncompromising force that it was in 1979 and, indeed, the fact that Tehran signed a July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with the United Nations Security Council comprised of the US, UK, China, France, Russia and the European Union was already a sign of capitulation and, in 2018, Iran compromised once again by allowing weapons inspectors from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency to spend no less than 3,000 days in the country to effectively spy on its nuclear facilities.

If – over the coming days, weeks and months – Iran is defeated, I will be satisfied that this was not simply a charade that is being played out for mutual benefit, but at the present moment in time I remain suspicious. The worse-case scenario, I believe, is that the Zionists already know that Iran is incapable of presenting a nuclear threat and have therefore decided to facilitate regime change and plunder both the country and its resources. After all, the UN is simply a front for Zionism and this could be the result of their knowing full well that they can get away with it without risking an all-out nuclear response. On the other hand, if they really are concerned about the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that Bush and Blair had so conveniently failed to locate in Iraq, then America – using its presidential puppet as the stereotypical strongman politician – may even be tempted to use the same tactics it employed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of the Second World World. As it stands, I don’t trust any of the participants in this affair.