{"id":3165,"date":"2019-07-22T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2019-09-01T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:01:56","slug":"stop-the-drive-to-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/stop-the-drive-to-war-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the drive to war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Communist Party of Canada condemns the ongoing foreign belligerence and escalating drive to war against Iran and demands that the Canadian government take immediate action to de-escalate the crisis, which risks an all-out, regional war that could involve nuclear weapons. This includes the immediate withdrawal of all US and NATO forces from the region, and normalization of diplomatic relations with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current crisis is the direct result of\nUnited States\u2019 provocation, which is increasing on a daily basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In May 2018 the US chose to unilaterally abandon\nthe Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the so-called \u201cIran nuclear deal,\u201d\nand reimpose sanctions on Iran. Donald Trump referred to these sanctions,\nsigned into force in August 2018 and followed by a further in November 2018, as\n\u201cthe most biting sanctions ever imposed.\u201d The nuclear deal was signed onto, and\ncontinues to be supported, by all UN Security Council countries, who also\nopposed the US withdrawal from the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April 2019, Trump unilaterally declared\nIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be a terrorist organization and announced\nthat all countries importing Iranian oil will also be subject to US sanctions.\nThe stated purpose was \u201cto bring Iran’s oil exports to zero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US continued its escalating provocation\nin May, by deploying an aircraft carrier strike group, Air Force bombers, and\n1500 additional troops to the Middle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost every day since, the Trump\nadministration has ratcheted up military tensions: declaring a \u201cnational\nemergency\u201d in order to finalize an arms deal that funnels $8 billion in weapons\nto US allies \u2013 and Iran\u2019s rivals \u2013 in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab\nEmirates; sending an additional 1000 troops to the region; ordering, and then\ncancelling, a military strike in late June; unleashing cyber attacks against\nIran; deploying F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran, meanwhile, is caught in an untenable\nposition. When the JCPOA was first negotiated in 2015, the Communist Party\nwarned that the deal avoided many of the underlying issues that have\ncontributed to insecurity, conflict and war in the region. \u201cThere [was] no\ndiscussion of the role of Israel, a nuclear weapons state who has not signed\nthe Non-Proliferation Treaty, or the matter of military buildup in the region\nby the US and its allies. Similarly, [the agreement] does not discuss foreign\ninterference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states, a recurring tactic of\nimperialism as it drives to overthrow legitimate governments in countries such\nas Syria. The plan is further weakened by the absence of either a clear\ntimeline for eliminating sanctions, or a common agreement on which sanctions\nwill be lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the United States has left the\nJCPOA and reimposed sanctions, responses by Iran remain subject to the terms of\nthe agreement and, therefore, to penalty from the other signatories. So, when Iran\nincrementally, and symbolically, increased enriched uranium production, it was\nimmediately denounced by France, Germany and Britain. Israel\u2019s government has called\nfor those countries to impose sanctions in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This crisis follows a script that the\npeople of the world have seen many times. The imperialist states and\norganizations use finger-pointing and wild claims of threats, troop movements\nand build-ups, phony public relations gestures, and exaggerated or completely\nfabricated cases of aggression from the target country, all calculated to make\nwar appear inevitable and even necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperialist forces are using the many\ncomplexities in the region\u2019s politics to promote misinformation and confusion. But\nthe threat of war in the Middle East does not arise from countries who exercise\ntheir sovereign right to develop the nuclear energy industries to build their\neconomies, nor from countries who oppose imperialist efforts to re-colonize the\nMiddle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather, the concrete threat is the existing\nconventional and nuclear weapons that the US, its NATO allies and Israel\nconstantly brandish in their effort to destabilize the region, to demonize\ngovernments that oppose imperialist plans, and to justify interference and war.\nThe real danger is the economic and political interests of these same,\nimperialist, forces. In the first place, the US drive for worldwide access and\ncontrol over oil and its transportation routes is the key factor in the current\ndrive to war against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian government has allied itself with\nthe US and a tiny minority of Western governments who, along with pro-war\nforces within Israel and a few reactionary Arab regimes, are seeking new\npretexts for intervention and war. These governments have chosen militarism and\nwar as their preferred option for expanding their spheres of influence and\ncontrol over resources and markets. The result, always, is destruction,\ndisplacement, death and despair to the peoples of the countries who have been\ntargeted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time the stakes are even higher, given\nthe concentration of foreign military firepower in the region. A US-led war against\nIran would quickly escalate into a regional conflict \u2013 or even broader \u2013 and\ninvolve nuclear-weapons powers including the US, NATO, Russia, and Israel.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist Party of Canada demands the immediate withdrawal of all US and NATO forces from the region. The CPC further demands that the Canadian government oppose the US provocations against Iran, along with all acts of foreign interference and aggression. Canada must restore and normalize its diplomatic relations with Iran, and work to end all sanctions against the people of Iran. The CPC calls for a new, independent foreign policy of peace, international cooperation and solidarity, with a focus on promoting comprehensive and general disarmament, beginning with the nuclear arsenals of the US, NATO and Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Communist Party of Canada condemns the ongoing foreign belligerence and escalating drive to war against Iran and demands that the Canadian government take immediate action to de-escalate the crisis, which risks an all-out, regional war that could involve nuclear weapons. This includes the immediate withdrawal of all US and NATO forces from the region,…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,83,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-solidarity","category-iran","category-peace-and-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}