Some Comments on the Lies About the War on Iran

 

Some Comments on the Lies About the War on Iran

 

Richard Mellor

Afscme Local 444, retired

July14, 2026

This is a short clip, and I think a part one of two on Tik Tok. I think the guy identifies his outlet as the Mr. Global Channel. and that he doesn't represent any organization. He has this address @buncevsigal. Also as user 1202.

 

Regardless, I am in complete agreement with his statements here, and the vast majority of Americans would agree with him also. 

 

One point I would make though, and he might have made it in a follow up video I don't know, is that when he talks about Iran attacking 5 countries, and he says it in reference to Iran's response to the hundreds of attacks, I assume bombs drones and missiles, that the US rogue regime has carried out over the past three days; his description needs some clarifying. 

 

Iran is not "attacking" the guy states because it feels like it or for expansionist reasons. Iran’s response is a defensive one and is directed at US military installations. It is attacking US allies that are allowing the aggressor to wage this unprovoked war on Iran from their soil. This is legitimate in time of war surely. 

 

The US policy, especially since 911 is what is euphemistically referred to as pre-emptive attacks. Pre-emptive assassinations of anyone that might even be thinking about hurting the US. pre-emptive missile assaults on anyone rejecting US power in the region and so on. The billions to the genocidal Israeli regime is pre-emptive what? 

 

Admittedly, the Iranians can't attack the US land mass. But still, even in its attacks on US allies in the region (stooges really because among the populations the US is hated) it has stuck to legitimate military targets. Iran, my friends, didn't start this shit. 

 

I read today that the US bombed the wrestling auditorium in Tehran. It is something that boggles the mind that there are not thousands in the streets in the US trying to stop this rogue state from continuing its reckless, violent policies outside our borders, and increasingly violent ones at home. 

 

And I want to remind my working class brothers and sisters that think this is what makes America great as far as they are concerned. If you are a unionised worker, the violence your tax money finances abroad, will be coming to you . Especially when you are faced out on strike. The ICE, that right wing militia populated by the Oath Keepers, The Prayer Boys, Christian nationalists and other right wing elements are all in ICE now. They've found a home. 

 

Read some labor history folks and ponder on what was sacrificed and what violence was perpetrated against working people (And of course, the genocide against Native people and the legacy of slavery stands out as well) for trying to organise to fight for higher wages and some power and protection in the workplace. The millions of poor whites that were either brought here through pressing, or driven by poverty and starvation, or religious prejudice and worked own the great textile mills or mines of the US were horribly mistreated. This is what the future holds if we continue to avoid reality and wait until our backs are literally against the wall before we stand up for ourselves and workers. 

 

And I know this will anger some of you and likely you feel it's unpatriotic whatever patriotism actually is, but we must defend Iran here. and call for an end to this. Its leaders and who they are is an issue that belongs to the Iranian people. 

We must grasp that a defeat for US imperialism in this conflict it caused will benefit working people at home and shift the balance of class focus in the future in our favor. It will benefit our children and our children’s children.