We condemn the military assault on Iran by the fundamentalist and fascist Israeli regime. This act of war has nothing to do with freedom or justice. What emerges from missiles and bombs is not liberation, but death, destruction, poverty, and intensified repression. War destroys the very foundations of life and pushes back grassroots struggles for justice, equality, and freedom by decades. The experiences of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria in this very region clearly show that the militarism of global imperial powers leads only to devastation. A war-torn Iran would be no exception.
While mainstream media try to portray these attacks as “targeted” and “necessary,” they deliberately ignore the human toll—the destruction of everyday life and the social harm caused by war. The media speak only of officials killed, not the casualties and damage suffered by civilians in attacks on residential areas, making them complicit in these crimes. (So far, just hours after the attack, reports indicate 78 people killed and 300 injured.) What is unfolding in Iran today continues the same project seen in Palestine: the normalization of genocide and crimes against the people.
As a feminist collective, we refuse to remain silent in the face of the war crimes, genocide, and imperial violence perpetrated by the fascist regimes of Israel, the United States, and their allies—violence that actively undermines and sets back our central struggle against the dictatorship and the regressive forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Our struggle is against both poles of repression and domination, whether domestic or global.
The future we envision is not built on the ruins and corpses left from wars imposed by reactionary forces, but forged through the people’s just struggle, grounded in the principle of Women–Life–Freedom.
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