On Friday, June 13, the illegitimate Zionist occupation entity called Israel which has committed and continues to commit a genocide against Palestinians in occupied Palestine, viciously bombed Iran, martyring Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists. News of Iranian civilians being martyred has come out daily. Israel has bombed the whole region, inflicting terror, misery, starvation, murder, torture and brutality, gleefully fulfilling its role as the military outpost of the U.S.
For decades, Israel has been able to act with impunity, not having been dealt a heavy consequence since Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006 and since the Palestinians’ powerful prison break Al-Aqsa Flood in 2023. So when Israel assaulted Iran, which is ongoing and has resulted in over 200 Iranians dead and over 1,000 injured, this was just everyday colonial aggression.
Iran strikes back
Colonizers and even demoralized colonial subjects were not expecting Iran to strike back as hard as it has. Iran has dealt a powerful blow to the Zionist occupation entity. Since June 13, Iran has begun True Promise 3–Iran’s codename for its response to Israel
Iran targeted key Israeli military sites with missiles, including hypersonic missiles and drones, in Occupied Palestine including the military headquarters “Kirya,” the oil refinery at Haifa, the port of Haifa, power plants, military residences at “Rishion LeZion,” petrochemical plants, an F-35 plane, the Weizmann Institute of Science, “Bat Yam,” “Kiryat Gat,” Nevatim Airbase, “Bnei Brak” and a building which had 70 high-ranking Israelis.
Strong impact of Iran’s counteroffensive
Though Israel forbade Israelis to share footage of Iran’s attacks, the footage and images indeed got out and it has decisively shattered Israel’s aura of invincibility. There are husks of buildings in Tel Aviv looking indistinguishable from Gaza, craters where there were streets, fires everywhere, emergency vehicles, and the sky flooded with missiles.
Many commenting on social media understand this destruction and chaos in Israel as Israel receiving a small taste of what they have put Palestinians and other Arabs engaged in anti-colonial resistance through every single day for months, years and decades.
Strategic significance of Iran’s response
Iran has not embarked on confronting the Zionist entity haphazardly. Iran has struck with the aim of hampering Israel’s military capacity to conduct airstrikes, its capacity to further AI, drone guidance, cyber defense technology, advanced weapons development and its energy.
Israelis, rather than partying at all-night raves, are hiding in bomb shelters. Some were caught aboveground in their apartment during an Iranian missile strike and for the first time, they knew what it’s like to experience extreme fear and distress. Their apartments were hit because Israel places military targets in Israeli residential neighborhoods. One of the bomb shelters collapsed, reportedly killing three Israelis.
The Knesset held its meeting in underground bunkers. As Israelis became more desperate to flee to safety, the Israeli Transport Ministry forbade them from leaving. Israel, a genocidal State which doesn’t even care about its own, is using its people as human shields. Twenty-four Israelis have been killed and 592 have been injured.
Iran’s warning to colonial powers
Iran released an official statement to the Israelis to leave the occupied territories because they will soon be uninhabitable. Israel has committed war crimes against Iran, like bombing a hospital, and it set up a sabotage network of Mossad agents and drone manufacturing sites in Iran to cause chaos, overthrow the rightful government and destroy Iran.
Iran has arrested over 20 Mossad agents and uncovered these drone manufacturing sites, severely limiting Israel’s ability to attack Iran. Iran has been working methodically, to the point that on Monday, June 16, they were able to issue evacuation orders for an entire settler neighborhood, “Bnei Brak.” This signals a turning of the tide, and soon Iran will switch from defensive to offensive.
Not Iran vs. Israel, but world colonial powers
Iran is not fighting Israel alone; it’s fighting all the colonial powers. Iran stopped a British ship that was on its way to assist Israel. U.S. president Trump’s administration had prior knowledge of Israel’s attack on Iran, having sent 500 Hellfire missiles, and the USS Nimitz destroyer ship was transferred from the South China Sea to the region referred to as West Asia.
Trump allegedly turned down Israel’s request for the U.S. to assassinate the leader of Iran, and as Israel’s ultimate defeat grows nearer, it keeps on begging colonial and Arab Gulf states to help it against Iran.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes ludicrous claims that Iran wants to assassinate Trump, in a desperate ploy to get the U.S. to enter the war directly and ensure his political and actual survival.
The British government wants to jump to Israel’s rescue but not all people in Britain are enthusiastic. But just as Iran is not only fighting Israel, Iran is not alone. There is Yemen, which participated in the counteroffensive, and Palestine. Though Palestine is still enduring genocide in Gaza and the West Bank at the hands of the increasingly petty and ruthless Israelis, who arrest Palestinians who celebrate Iran’s attacks and brutalize Palestinian prisoners as acts of petulant vengeance, Palestinians still heroically resist.
The side Africans and colonized people must take is obvious
Africans and other colonized people must stand with Iran. The same Zionist occupation entity (Israel) trains the U.S. domestic police, which torture, kill, terrorize, and kidnap black and Indigenous people daily.
Colonel Ben Jonsson oversaw U.S. operations in the Gaza genocide and is using those same tactics in North St. Louis, where the Uhuru Movement and Black Power Blueprint are trying to transform the colonial conditions of the Black community there.
So when Iran bombs Tel Aviv or Haifa, we should be optimistic that colonialism can and WILL be defeated!
Onward with the worldwide anti-colonial struggle!
