Developments overseas
Imperialist agression ni the Middle East
Is Iran next?

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

An article last month in The New Yorker magazine disclosed the presence of US Special Forces troops operating clandestinely inside Iran. According to the author Seymour Hersh, the information was supplied by no less than US intelligence officials.

Iran has long been the object of US imperialism's ire because of its assertion of independence and sovereignty. The present Islamic state of Iran was established by a revolution in 1979 that toppled the former US puppet government.

Bush accused Iran outright as the world's primary state sponsor of terror in his State of the Union Address on February 3.

Laying the ground for its sinister design, the US claims that Iran is running a secret nuclear weapons program. The assertion is no different from Bush's claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, using it as the pretext to attack the country.

The US is forcing Iran to stop its nuclear program. This, despite findings of UN inspectors that all declared nuclear materials in Iran are not being used in any activity prohibited under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of which it is a signatory.

There is nothing new about the US' stance. It disregarded the UN in its invasion of Iraq. It is not about to allow anything to stop it once it decides to invade any country.

It is also standard operating procedure for the US to deploy secret troops in countries it wants to occupy even before the actual invasion. In any case, Iran has declared its preparedness to defend itself the moment imperialist forces attack.

On February 17, Iran and Syria announced their cooperative efforts and the formation of a united front in confronting US threats dangling over both countries. In such an event, the US will find itself mired in an ever deeper and wider quagmire in the Middle East.

21 February 2005
English Edition

	Editorial: Oppose the US-Arroyo regime's fascist measures
	Victorious tactical offensives: 33 soldiers killed in offensives in Compostela Valley and Isabela
	Victorious tactical offensives: Tactical offensives in Southern Luzon
	Victorious tactical offensives: Former NPA fighter kills three military troops
	NAHRA, RPA-ABB: Fascist regime's mouthpieces
	Arroyo-Marcos-Akbayan Collusion: Congress obstructs justice for martial law victims
	Arroyo-Marcos-Akbayan collusion: Jockeying by thieves
	The situation of farm workers nationwide
	Class struggle in Hacienda Luisita
	Pakikiramay: Poets' tribute to the peasants of Hacienda Luisita: Sympathy, solidarity, resistance
	Developments overseas Imperialist agression ni the Middle East Is Iran next?
	Sa Ibayong Dagat: �Outposts of tyranny�and other figments of Bush's imagination
	Sa Ibayong Dagat: Various forces oppose martial law declaration in Nepal
	Sa Ibayong Dagat: Armed struggle intensifies in Colombia