In the early hours of Friday, June 13, 2025, the warmongering and fascist government of Israel, under the pretext of the "threat of a nuclear Iran and the security of Israel", launched widespread attacks on dozens of military and nuclear centres as well as residential neighbourhoods in various cities of Iran, including Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Kermanshah, and Tabriz. In addition to killing several Islamic Republic military commanders, the attacks also killed and wounded hundreds of innocent civilians.

The Israeli government has announced that “these attacks will continue as long as necessary”, which is an official declaration of its policy to drag the entire region into a dark and dangerous era. These attacks, like Israel’s assaults on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria and the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, would not have been possible without the approval and cooperation of the U.S. government, the support of Western powers, and the silence of their international rivals; they are directly responsible for the consequences of this savagery and recklessness of the state of Israel, as well as the massacre of innocent people in Iran.

Iran’s response of missile strikes on various military and residential targets in Israel and the continuation of retaliatory attacks, marks the beginning of a war whose scale, scope, and future are unknown, as are the human casualties and the dangerous, devastating consequences for the people of Iran and the region.

The fascist and adventurist Israeli government has long tried to ignite a full-scale war in the region, with the aid and support of the U.S., to save itself from military and political deadlock, internal crises, international isolation, and mounting global condemnation for its genocide in Palestine. Today, the people of Iran are paying for Israel’s desperation and crisis with their lives and security. Israel’s hollow excuses of the “nuclear threat of Iran” and “security of Israel”, along with Trump’s threats against Iran with such declarations as “either accept my terms in negotiations or face military attack”, as well as provocations by the UK, France, and Germany under the guise of the “nuclear danger,” laid the groundwork for this war. Israel’s unbridled aggression, its total disregard for any international agreements and laws, and its impunity in the face of warmongering, genocide in Palestine, attacks on Lebanon and Syria, occupation of parts of those countries, and now attacks on Iran, would not be possible without the support and participation of Western governments in these crimes. Freedom-seeking people around the world have rightly risen up against this unbridled aggression, genocide, and all those responsible, from Israel to the U.S. and Europe.

Freedom-seeking people in Iran are engaged in a daily struggle for a revolutionary overthrow of the Islamic Republic, and to end poverty, oppression, and tyranny to secure a humane life. Israel's attack on Iran and the start of war is a major blow to this freedom-seeking movement in its path of struggle against the Islamic Republic. Beyond the devastating consequences of this war for the people of Iran and the region, irrespective of the scale of the damage it inflicts on the Islamic Republic, in addition to enforcement of fear and danger of further misery to the people in Iran, strengthens the Islamic Republic’s hand in suppressing the freedom-seeking protests. The people of Iran in their struggle for salvation from the Islamic Republic, do not need the butchers of Gaza, one of the most criminal states in human history, a state that has been massacring the oppressed people of Palestine for 70 years and is now the primary source of insecurity in the region. 

In this situation, the Islamic Republic, under the guise of “self-defence” and “territorial integrity of Iran”, with nationalist and patriotic propaganda, is trying to not only rally the Iranian nationalists inside and outside the country around itself, but also to justify the poverty, deprivation, inflation, lack of rights, militarism, and its crimes against the Iranian people. It seeks to use these conditions to suppress mass protests of the working class, women, and the deprived, and to tilt the balance of power in favour of its own survival and imposing despair on society. The first victims of war, bombings, and an atmosphere of war, fear and insecurity are the freedom-seeking and revolutionary people. The criminal action of Israel effectively places the working class and freedom-seeking people of Iran, in an even more adverse, dangerous, and uncertain conditions against the Islamic Republic.

At the same time, and the other hand, as Israel attacks Iran and kills the innocent people in Tehran and other cities, while fear and anxiety spread throughout the country, part of the pro-Israel opposition of the Islamic Republic joyfully echo Netanyahu’s message as the "salvation" of the Iranian people. They call this the best opportunity to "liberate Iran," "take back Iran," or to bring about a "revolution" and the "overthrow of the Islamic Republic," promising “freedom for Iran” at the cost of turning Tehran into another Beirut. These are the forces that have a shameful record of supporting every reactionary and anti-people policy or action of global or regional reactionaries, from military invasions to turning Iran into another Syria in the name of opposing the Islamic Republic. These forces are of the same breed as the  Islamic reaction and Israeli fascism, and have historically stood against any progressive humane change and are direct enemies of the freedom, security, and well-being of the people in Iran.

Hekmatist Party (Official Line), alongside the working class, women, and the impoverished sectors of society, not only condemns the U.S.-Israeli military attack but also opposes the war and its escalation and demands the immediate end of counter attacks. Together with the freedom-seeking people of Iran, we also condemn any assault by the Islamic Republic on people’s lives, security, and livelihood under the pretext of “war with Israel” and “self-defence,” and we will stand against it in every possible way.

Hekmatist Party (Official Line) calls on all workers’, freedom-seeking, defenders of the rights of human beings, anti-war and anti-crime organisations and institutions around the world to protest against the war, against Israel and its supporters, and stand in defence of the people in Iran and the region.

Hekmatist Party (Official Line)
14 June 2025