The American Communist Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the illegal and criminal act by the Trump administration and US regime at large in violating the national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in what now amounts to a declaration of war without congressional approval.

The American Communist Party calls upon the people to mobilize, contact their state and federal representatives, and loudly protest the criminal US occupation regime’s decision to drag our country into war.

It is clear that the forces behind the US regime, which has developed into an outright, illegitimate occupation entity at war with its own population and with the people of the entire world, have long been planning a war on Iran — in order to trigger region and potentially world-wide chaos and instability. Such destructive acts are necessary, in the eyes of the Wall St. and global financial capitalist cartels — to fundamentally restructure and reorder the world according to the rapacious dictates of imperialist monopoly capital.

The war against Iran is not only a war on Iran, its people, and the region — but a declaration of war against all the freedom-loving peoples of mankind, including the American people themselves. All Americans of free conscience — regardless of their political and ideological affiliations — must come together to resist and do their utmost to oppose the predatory imperialist war of terror, extermination and plunder against the people of Iran. This war will undoubtedly, in addition to bringing carnage, destruction and terror upon the region - become the pretext under which freedom-minded Americans across the political spectrum will be repressed and persecuted on grounds of ‘sedition.’

The war will give the US regime the ‘emergency powers’ necessary to completely destroy whatever remains of our constitutional and popular sovereignty as a Republic. History will remember this day as marking the beginning of the end of the United States of America as we know it. History will condemn into oblivion and accursed infamy all those forces who, in an outrageous and unspeakably criminal act, decided to drag our country into what can potentially escalate into a world war on behalf of the genocidal, fascist, and illegitimate Zionist entity.

The Zionist entity and its agents have usurped American constitutional and popular sovereignty in such an open and brazen way that the people’s will and opinion has become an absolute nonfactor in the major decision-making calculus of our regime. Gone are the days where it was even necessary to build popular consensus for war. America exists under a state of occupation, and the financial capitalist elites ruling it are betting on the fact that the American people are too passive and disunited to fundamentally challenge them.

The Party calls upon the American people to disprove their wager: to loudly, openly, and defiantly make their voices and will known. Our Party extends an open invitation to all other organizations to join forces to begin demonstrations, marches, and campaigns of protest to oppose the war against Iran.

Today marks a point of no return, and at this decisive hour the American people must exhaust every means available to them to assert their popular sovereignty. History will remember those who were silent in these hours, and those who took the initiative to stand up in defense of both the American people, the people of Iran, and the people of the world.