The Iranian Nuclear Question
What's at stake, what does it mean?
The decision by Donald Trump’s National Security Council to dismantle and destroy the mullah regime’s underground nuclear program came down to one single, as well as simple, question: Is an economic trade deal with a dictatorship worth the risk of that dictatorship buying itself time to go nuclear?
Often times, when discussing geopolitics, events are almost always more complicated and complex than they first appear. Every now again, however, some questions are extremely simple. They are made this way by the reality of events beyond anybody’s control. The Iranian nuclear question is one of those instances.
The question before us, or at least was before us a few minutes ago, was/is anything worth the risk of letting the theocratic regime in Iran acquire nuclear weapons?
Any discussions about enrichment percentages, and any other thermonuclear scientific defenses or suggestions, are besides the point, as the Secretary of State markedly pointed out Sunday morning on MSNBC. Such casuistry is actually quite irresponsible during times like this. When discussing these decisions, for these reasons, it’s necessary to answer them as if the decision was yours and you yourself were in the driver’s seat. What would you do if you were in charge and you were faced with a catch-22 dilemma between letting an antisemitic fascist regime get nuclear weapons or not? Another way of asking is would you rather regret intervening or regret not intervening? These are the questions.
Any talk towards criticizing Donald Trump to help the Democratic Party’s message is a waste of revolutionary energy during a revolutionary moment in Iran. At this time, every class-conscious worker should be thinking about how to win solidarity for the aspirations of the Iranian people to breathe free, to call for solidarity between and among working peoples in the Middle East. The Iranian people have been yearning for freedom for several decades. Many have given their lives, true martyrs in the most honorable sense, for a democratic Iran.
The Iranian people have a long, historical memory. They will proceed to fulfill their historic tasks, knowing they have air support and air cover from their friends in Israel and the boys and girls of the U.S. Air Force.