At 2:17 AM local time, the skies over Tehran lit up in a theatrical display of American military might. Yet for all the sound and fury, the substance was absent. The so-called 'precision strikes' announced by Donald Trump’s second regime, allegedly targeting Iranian nuclear infrastructure, left little actual damage. Initial claims from the Pentagon suggested "crippling blows" to enrichment facilities and military command centers. But satellite images, IAEA inspections, and eyewitness accounts have since revealed that the bombs largely hit decoy buildings and non-strategic sites on the outskirts of the capital.
Trump, backed by the full machinery of U.S. media complicity and Zionist war doctrine, didn’t just bomb, he lied. The assault was less about military objectives and more about public spectacle, political optics, and violent distraction. Civilian neighborhoods were rattled, infrastructure was damaged, and fear surged across the nation, but the regime in Tehran remained intact. What the bombs failed to destroy, the lies attempted to fabricate.
This war wasn’t launched to eliminate a nuclear threat. It was launched to manufacture one. with the same imperial arrogance that has haunted the Global South for centuries. This time, the horror came in the form of Lockheed Martin drones, guided by Washington's unwavering loyalty to Zionist war doctrine. The bombs didn’t discriminate, they leveled hospitals, schoolyards, libraries, and subway lines. Historic districts crumbled. Family homes vaporized. Thousands displaced in the span of minutes.
And just as the dust began to settle, Marco Rubio, with bloodless smugness, appeared on every major U.S. network. He didn’t mourn the dead. He didn’t question the war. He asked:
“Why does Iran have 60% enriched uranium?”
As if uranium, and not empire, was the threat. As if enrichment, not occupation, was the provocation. As if centuries of colonial violence hadn't made resistance a necessity.
Let’s answer that. Not with propaganda. With historical memory, material reality, and decolonial truth.
☣️ 1. THE NUCLEAR QUESTION IS WHITE SUPREMACY IN POLICY FORM
The Western obsession with Iran's nuclear program is not rooted in genuine concern for peace. It is rooted in a colonial impulse to control which nations are allowed to possess power, and which must remain permanently surveilled, sanctioned, and subordinate.
The U.S., architect of the post-WWII global order, weaponized the narrative of "nuclear threat" not to secure peace, but to justify preemptive aggression, especially toward nations that resist Western dominance. Iran, with its defiant posture and commitment to regional autonomy, becomes the perfect target.
Why is Iran consistently painted as the villain? Because it refuses to align with the U.S.-Israel-Saudi axis of control. Because it resists economic dependency on the West. Because it speaks the language of sovereignty in a world rigged by dependency.
This is the real reason Americans are told, through films, news cycles, textbooks, and military briefings, that Iran is a "terrorist state."
To decolonize this narrative, we must ask: Who defines terrorism?
The nation that dropped atomic bombs on civilians?
The empire that toppled 80+ governments globally since WWII?
The country that runs black sites and drone bases on every continent?
Iran is not being punished for being dangerous. It is being punished for being disobedient.
So let us stop asking why Iran enriches uranium, and start asking why the West believes only it can hold the power of annihilation.
Rubio's fear-mongering ignores:
Iran is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (Israel isn't), meaning Iran is legally bound by international obligations to transparency and civilian-use nuclear development. Israel, meanwhile, has never even admitted to possessing nuclear weapons—despite an estimated arsenal of 80 to 90 warheads, according to global intelligence assessments.
Iran has zero nuclear weapons. The United States, by contrast, possesses 5,244 nuclear warheads, many on hair-trigger alert, yet continues to position itself as the arbiter of nuclear morality. This is not about peace. It's about who empire deems "responsible."
Iran allows IAEA inspections at all declared nuclear sites. In 2023 alone, the IAEA conducted more than 25 verified visits. Israel permits none. It remains opaque, militarized, and untouched by scrutiny.
The U.S. remains the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons, not on military targets, but on civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 200,000 lives were incinerated or slowly erased by radiation. That act set the standard: the powerful can kill indiscriminately and still claim peace.
This is nuclear apartheid. A system where the rules do not apply universally, but rather according to a racialized hierarchy of trust. White, Western nations are seen as mature enough to hold extinction-level weapons. Brown nations are criminalized for seeking energy autonomy.
But the deeper issue? Nuclear discourse is colonized. It assumes that some nations, white, Western, imperial, have the right to possess, stockpile, and threaten global annihilation under the guise of "deterrence." Others, especially nations of the Global South, are criminalized for even approaching the threshold of parity.
Rubio doesn’t ask about France’s arsenal. Or Israel’s undeclared weapons. Or the U.S. plans for modernizing its nukes with a $1.5 trillion budget. His question is not about safety. It’s about supremacy.
So again: Why does Iran have 60% uranium enrichment? Because in 2018, Trump illegally withdrew from the JCPOA, a multilateral agreement that Iran was complying with. Because the U.S. and Israel assassinated Iran’s top scientists. Because cyberwarfare (Stuxnet), sabotage, and sanctions, not diplomacy, became the preferred tools of the settler empire.
Let’s be clear:
Enriching uranium to 60% is still below weapons-grade (90%+), and Iran has never crossed that threshold. For comparison, medical isotope production can require up to 20%, yet no Western country questions that, only when it's Iran does enrichment become "terrorism."
Iran enriched higher only after being repeatedly betrayed, surveilled, and targeted. Every increase in uranium purity has followed Western aggression, from Trump's 2018 JCPOA betrayal to Mossad-led assassinations of nuclear scientists and cyberattacks like Stuxnet. The timeline of escalation tells the real story: it is not Iran breaking deals, but reacting to betrayal.
Sanctions have crippled cancer treatment, restricted anesthesia and insulin, blocked humanitarian aid, and shattered the health infrastructure of an entire nation. Over 70% of Iran's imported medicines are affected. Hospitals report rationing chemo for children. Middle-class families have become beggars, and inflation has reached triple digits in food and rent. These are not sanctions, they are economic warfare dressed in diplomatic drag.
60% enrichment is not escalation. It is resistance engineering, the act of a nation building leverage under siege.
This is not a nuclear crisis. It is a colonial power crisis, where the empire can’t handle being challenged by brown defiance backed by scientific autonomy.
And beneath this nuclear theater lies another layer of colonial desire few are naming: antimony. Iran is home to one of the largest known reserves of antimony in the Middle East, a rare, strategic mineral crucial for the development of semiconductors, flame retardants, infrared sensors, and armor-piercing ammunition. As global superpowers accelerate their decoupling from Chinese mineral supply chains, nations like Iran become prime targets not because of their politics, but because of what lies beneath their soil.
The U.S. Department of Defense has already flagged antimony as a "critical mineral" necessary for national security and future military infrastructure. While mainstream narratives fixate on uranium, what remains unspoken is that resource extraction is the pulse of empire. Just as oil made Iran a target in 1953, rare earth elements like antimony are part of the 21st-century scramble for techno-military supremacy. And once again, it is brown bodies and sovereign nations that are deemed expendable for the West’s continued dominance.
When the West screams “nuclear terror,” it often means “uncontrolled resources.” The drive to dominate isn’t about nonproliferation, it’s about monopolization. Iran’s autonomy over its critical minerals represents a material threat to the imperial world order, not because it endangers peace, but because it endangers profit. And empire has always preferred extraction to negotiation, colonization to compromise.
Let’s decolonize the question entirely: Who profits from Iran’s isolation? Who benefits when antimony, uranium, and oil flow not into Iranian public works or regional equity, but into the pockets of military contractors, tech monopolies, and war-lobby donors?
This isn’t just geopolitics. It’s geoeconomics. And it’s deeply racialized, as all imperial extraction has always been.
🧬 HOW IMPERIALISM ENGINEERED THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Iran’s current authoritarian structure did not arise in a vacuum, it was forged through over a century of Western intervention, colonization, and imperial betrayal. To understand why Iran is governed the way it is today, we must trace the architecture of white supremacy that shaped its modern political DNA.
1. Iran was on a democratic path before the West violently intervened. At the turn of the 20th century, Iran was experimenting with constitutional reform, civic representation, and democratic possibility. By the early 1950s, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was leading a secular democracy and boldly moved to nationalize Iran’s oil, removing British control over its natural resources. This act of economic sovereignty was too threatening for empire to tolerate. In 1953, the CIA and British MI6 orchestrated a coup to remove Mossadegh and reinstall the Shah, a monarch who would serve Western oil interests and suppress Iran’s democratic aspirations.
2. The Shah’s reign was imperialism wearing a Persian face. Under the U.S.-backed Shah, Iran became a laboratory for colonial modernization, a fusion of elite capitalist expansion, authoritarian policing, and Western cultural imperialism. The U.S. and Israel trained his secret police, SAVAK, in surveillance and torture. Dissent was criminalized. Universities were militarized. The Shah’s regime crushed all opposition while painting itself as “modern.” It was a regime dressed in Western suits, but built on broken backs.
3. The 1979 revolution was not born from extremism — it was born from resistance. When the people overthrew the Shah, they weren’t voting for repression, they were rejecting empire. The Islamic Republic emerged as a reaction to decades of humiliation, occupation, and exploitation. Its authoritarianism reflects a deep trauma: a people forced to choose between submission to empire or militarized autonomy. This doesn’t excuse its crimes, it explains their origin. White supremacy doesn’t just invade from the outside; it engineers the authoritarian responses that follow.
4. Western sanctions and aggression continue to fuel Iran’s repressive state. From the assassination of nuclear scientists to the imposition of sanctions that deny cancer patients medicine, the U.S. has ensured that Iran remains isolated, defensive, and under siege. This state of permanent threat has been used by the regime to justify crackdowns, consolidate power, and frame all dissent as “Western sabotage.” The Iranian people suffer not only under their regime, but under the global architecture of punishment enforced by the West.
Iran is not uniquely repressive. It is structurally reactive, shaped by centuries of white supremacist interventionism. To critique its government without naming that history is to erase the fingerprints of empire from its most brutal institutions.
🏛️ 2. IRAN IS NOT FREE FROM REPRESSION, BUT THE U.S. OPERATES AS THE GLOBAL ENFORCER OF WHITE SUPREMACY
It is vital to maintain a clear and unwavering distinction between the critique of authoritarian repression and the justification of imperial violence. The Iranian government is undeniably responsible for a long record of systemic oppression within its borders. From its violent crackdown on women who defy compulsory dress codes, to the arrest and imprisonment of feminists, students, and organizers, the regime maintains social control through institutionalized fear. However, these atrocities are not invitations for bombs, they are indictments of state repression that must be addressed through transnational solidarity, not military intervention.
The LGBTQIA+ community in Iran lives under constant threat, not only from societal stigma but from state-sponsored violence. Many queer Iranians are forced into silence, exile, or disappear into prison systems that criminalize their very existence. Yet when the U.S. invokes LGBTQIA+ rights to justify intervention, it does so not from compassion but from opportunism. These identities become pawns for empire, not protected lives.
Iran’s treatment of the Baloch, Kurdish, and other ethnic minorities reveals a legacy of cultural and political marginalization that amounts to internal colonialism. These communities have long faced disproportionate policing, underdevelopment, language erasure, and lethal state violence. But it is profoundly hypocritical for a settler-colonial state like the United States, built on the genocide of Indigenous peoples, to feign concern over Iran’s own settler dynamics.
Iran’s prisons are filled with labor organizers, educators, artists, and political dissidents who dared to imagine a more just society. These people are the architects of a free future, rising against a regime that fears their courage. Their struggle, however, cannot be reduced to justification for foreign domination. They resist both local authoritarianism and global imperialism, they are not asking for bombs, they are asking for breath.
The United States, in contrast, has neither the moral ground nor historical record to claim guardianship over Iranian liberation. In 1953, it orchestrated a CIA-led coup that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh, simply because he sought to nationalize oil. In his place, the U.S. installed the Shah — a brutal monarch who governed through fear, enforced by SAVAK, a secret police force trained in torture by American and Israeli intelligence.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein, providing not only weapons but also intelligence that enabled chemical attacks on Iranian civilians. These were war crimes, greenlit by the very empire now crying foul about Iranian retaliation. In the modern era, U.S. economic sanctions masquerading as diplomacy have strangled the Iranian economy, obstructed access to life-saving medicine, and devastated the lives of millions.
What the U.S. calls “freedom” is often economic siege. What it labels “democracy” is forced regime change. What it deems “liberation” is often occupation, displacement, and death.
It must be said: the United States does not care about human rights in Iran. It cares about power, oil, and geopolitical control. It selectively allies with dictators, partners with apartheid regimes, and props up monarchies that commit atrocities daily. Its so-called concern for Iranian lives is simply a mask for imperial strategy.
To critique Iran is not to grant moral authority to the United States. To name Iran’s authoritarianism is not to silence its sovereignty. The global majority must reject both false binaries and forced allegiances. Iran deserves justice — not war. Its people deserve liberation, not occupation.
This is the dual truth empire fears most: that Iran’s government is oppressive, and that U.S. empire is far worse. And both must be dismantled, by the people, for the people, without the violence of imperial saviors.. But the West weaponizes that repression not to liberate women, but to justify bombs.
Yes, LGBTQIA+ Iranians are hunted, imprisoned, and disappeared. But those same identities are tokenized by Western liberalism to greenlight airstrikes. There’s no liberation in death from above.
Yes, the Baloch and Kurdish peoples are criminalized, militarized, and erased inside Iran’s borders. These are not ancient tribal disputes, they are the marks of state-sponsored internal colonialism, the kind the U.S. perfected on Indigenous land.
Yes, students, labor organizers, and intellectuals are jailed and tortured. But their resistance exists in spite of both the regime and U.S. interference.
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The United States has zero moral credibility to speak on human rights in Iran or anywhere.
In 1953, it staged a coup against Iran’s democratic leader Mohammad Mossadegh because he nationalized oil, a resource the U.S. felt entitled to control.
It installed and armed the Shah, whose secret police, SAVAK, tortured and murdered thousands, trained by the CIA and Mossad.
It backed Saddam Hussein’s war on Iran, providing intelligence for chemical weapons attacks that killed civilians.
Today, it imposes economic sanctions that choke hospitals, deny basic medicine, and collapse entire classes of people into starvation.
So when U.S. officials speak of Iranian brutality, we ask: Since when did the empire care for the bruises it helped inflict?
This isn’t about justice. It’s about domination.
The U.S. doesn’t bomb tyrants. It partners with them when convenient, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, apartheid Israel, and only labels a regime “evil” when it refuses to kneel.
Human rights discourse, in the hands of empire, becomes a weapon of moral laundering, a justification for endless war, economic violence, and racial supremacy.
Iran must be critiqued. But it cannot be critiqued through the blood-soaked mouth of the United States.
The U.S. doesn’t care about human rights. It cares about hegemony.
🤔 3. THE PALESTINE DISTORTION — IMPERIALISM’S FAVORITE MIRROR
Iran’s invocation of Palestine is politically strategic, and sometimes cynically so. While the regime champions resistance to Zionist occupation, it often does so not to uplift Palestinian liberation, but to cloak its own internal repression in the fabric of moral authority. The Palestinian cause becomes a shield Iran uses to position itself as the righteous counterweight to Israeli apartheid, while crushing dissent at home.
Meanwhile, Israel uses Iran’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah as permanent justification for its own settler colonial expansion, surveillance state, and genocidal campaigns, most recently the 2024 Gaza genocide that left over 40,000 dead, most of them children and displaced civilians.
Caught between these state agendas are the Palestinian people, exploited as symbols, but rarely centered as autonomous agents. This is what decolonization demands: we must refuse proxy solidarity. We must support Palestinians, not the states who instrumentalize them.
Iran may resist Zionism rhetorically. But resistance that erases your own minorities, Baloch, Ahwazi Arabs, Kurdish secularists, and feminist leaders, is not liberation. It’s opportunism.
True decolonial solidarity stands with people, not regimes. With the oppressed, not those who posture while repressing.
Yes, Iran backs resistance in Palestine. But let’s not romanticize the state:
Iran uplifts aligned groups, but represses Arab, Kurdish, and secular movements that don't serve its politics.
Iran uses Palestine as a geopolitical shield, even as it fails its own oppressed minorities.
True decolonization means refusing proxy liberation. It means supporting the people, not regimes.
🇰🇷 4. IRAN IS AN EMPIRE WITHIN, WE MUST SAY THIS
Iran is not just a target of imperialism. It is a regional empire itself:
Baloch people are executed and erased.
Kurds face military violence and cultural erasure.
Afro-Iranians are invisibilized under state denial.
Queer and trans people are tortured under state doctrine.
We cannot oppose U.S. bombs while staying silent about the Iranian government’s own internal colonialism.
The Iranian state and the U.S. empire are two heads of the same hydra: patriarchy, nationalism, settler logic.
🗳️ 5. DECOLONIAL FIRE TO THE IRANIAN DIASPORA
To the exiled elite cheering on airstrikes: you are complicit.
Living comfortably in London or L.A. does not make you a revolutionary. If you support bombs on your own people, you’re not fighting oppression. You’re outsourcing it.
The call is to resist both empire and authoritarianism, not beg one to remove the other.
💪 6. THE PEOPLE VS. THE EMPIRES
From the streets of Sanandaj to the alleys of Gaza, From labor strikes in Ahvaz to university occupations in Isfahan, From trans Iranians risking it all to women burning state uniforms in open squares:
The people are building freedom with blood and courage.
They don’t need Trump. They don’t need Rubio. They don’t need bombs. They need the abolition of all empires, foreign and domestic.
🌏 OUR POSITION:
No to U.S. imperialism
No to Israeli apartheid
No to Iranian authoritarianism
Yes to a liberated, just, queer-affirming, feminist, post-colonial Iran built by the people, not regimes
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