The Zionist state has bombed the Iranian Consulate (part of the Iranian Embassy, and so sovereign Iranian territory), in Damascus. As it stands right next to the Canadian Embassy in Damascus, this represented a significant risk, had its bombs gone astray. The superficial reason for the strike was to take out a senior figure in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, stationed in the Consulate. The Revolutionary Guard are part of the Iranian military, and state, and so legitimately stationed in the Embassy. The action by the Zionist state is, then, clearly an act of war, as defined by international law. However, as set out in other posts, international law is something that imperialist states, attached to the US, continually flout with impunity, illustrating the sham nature of bourgeois-democracy, and its rule of law.
The real reason for the strike, however, is quite different to that being proclaimed. The US questioned about whether it had been given advance notice of the strike, conducted using US F-35 jets, a new batch of which have just been delivered to the genocidal Zionist regime, refused to comment. They first said that they were opposed to any escalation in the region, but, then quickly denied that the Zionist strike did represent an escalation!
But, escalation is precisely what US imperialism, and its Zionist proxy requires, and is what the strike was intended to achieve. US imperialism/Zionism has been frustrated by the fact that, despite previous bombings of Damascus, and other parts of Syria, drone attacks on Iranian military personnel, and increasing attacks on Lebanon, as well as into Iraq, they have not provoked any response from Iran or Syria.
Zionism has, for decades, ignored the decisions of the UN Security Council, and other global institutions, with impunity, because of its backing from US imperialism, and its European subordinates. It will almost certainly be found guilty of committing genocide, in Gaza, but nothing will come of it, even compared to the actions being undertaken by the US and "the international community", i.e. US allies, against Russia, for its war in Eastern Ukraine, which most certainly cannot be classed as genocide, however, reactionary it may be.
Moreover, as noted in the previous post, however much liberals might want to see it happen, the imperialists in the US, UK, and Europe that are also guilty of genocide and war crimes, by supplying the weapons and munitions to the Zionists to undertake their slaughter against civilians, will also not face any such retribution, either, because they control the state, and the state is a bourgeois, imperialist state. Nor, indeed, will the imperialist opposition politicians, such as Starmer, or the social-imperialists that have justified the genocidal actions of the Zionists, by lyingly bleating about the right of self-defence of the Zionist imperialist state, face any such retribution.
But, that does not mean that there is no consequence. Day after day, the sham nature of bourgeois-democracy, and its claims about the rule of law, of an international rule based system, are exposed to billions of people across the globe, including, despite the role of the bourgeois media in acting as the propaganda arm of the imperialist states, in the US, UK, and Europe. The functioning of bourgeois-democracy depends upon the majority being conned by the sham nature of that democracy, of them not seeing through its corrupt and corrupting nature. But the dissonance between its claims and the reality seen by billions, each day, is now so great that the lie is falling apart.
At the very least, for the billions in the "global South", already disillusioned with western imperialism, and its history of colonial oppression, and exploitation, that acts as a pole of attraction to the rival imperialist camp of Russia/China/BRICS. US imperialism/Zionism needs a distraction, and a further justification of its genocide against the Palestinians, and, as in the past, an attack on it by other Arab states would provide such a distraction, and justification. Far from being opposed to an escalation of the war, in the region, that is precisely what the US and its subordinates requires, as the heat from its own masses intensifies upon it.
Any sizeable response from Iran, Syria, or Lebanon to the increasing attacks by the Zionist regime on them, would give US imperialism precisely the cover it is looking for to step up its own attacks on those Arab states, much as it has already done in attacking the Houthis, and its own strikes in Syria and Iraq. If they have any strategic nous, the regimes in Iran, Lebanon and Syria will not allow themselves to be drawn in to that trap. The masses in those countries should certainly oppose any such engagement, and instead, turn their attention to dealing with their own exploitation and oppression by their own ruling classes. That class struggle, leading towards the Arab socialist revolution, holds the key to resolving the problems of the Middle-East.
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