We call on the peoples of the world to unite and mobilise against U.S.-Israeli aggression and war!
The Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) strongly condemns the coordinated U.S.–Israel military attack on Iran as a brutal act of imperialist war and aggression.
On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a joint offensive against Iran, described by Israeli officials as “Operation Lion’s Roar” and by U.S. leadership as “major combat operations.” Explosions were reported in Tehran and across multiple Iranian cities.
One of the targets was a girls elementary school in the southern city of Minab, where at least 100 children were killed and injured. Reports from Iranian relief organizations indicate hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries across at least 24 provinces during the first day of the strikes, with widespread fear as citizens sought safety.
This military assault is not an isolated incident. Israel, with the full backing from the US, conducted a 12-day military aggression on Iran in June 2025.
For decades, the United States has pursued a policy of economic warfare, crippling sanctions, covert intelligence operations by Mossad and the CIA, and direct military attacks on Iran.
U.S. sanctions have devastated Iran’s economy, contributing to inflation, shortages, unemployment, and deepening hardship among ordinary Iranians. Such policies are part of a long history of interventionism, dating back to the overthrow of the popular and democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 and continuing through the years.
Successive U.S. administrations have repeatedly and falsely claimed alleged threats against the U.S. to justify military action — from Vietnam to Iraq — only for those justifications to be discredited later. We now witness a similar false claim of the threat of Iran’s nuclear program as a pretext for war.
This assault is also an attack on the peoples of the Middle East and the Global South. From Cuba and Venezuela to Iraq and Iran, we must unconditionally oppose all efforts at U.S.-led regime change and domination. The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the broader pattern of violence perpetuated by imperialist alliances with Israel cannot be separated from the attacks on Iran. They signify an intensification of imperialist aggression against the Global South.
PLM calls for:
1. An immediate cessation of all US-Israel military operations and attacks on Iran.
2. A united response from the Global South in defense of peace, national sovereignty, and against imperialist aggression.
3. The Philippine government to publicly condemn this attack and reject any participation, support, or facilitation, including the use of Philippine territory or military bases in support of U.S. operations.
4. Solidarity with the Iranian people in their struggle for their rights and self-determination without imperialist manipulation and intervention.
U.S. imperialism is the major threat to peace and national sovereignty worldwide. We therefore call on the people of the United States to be accountable, to mobilise and act to stop their government’s wars and aggression — in Iran, genocide in Gaza, intervention across the Middle East, in Latin America and throughout Asia and the Global South.
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