U.S.-Zionist Aggression Kills MOU with Iran and Leads to All Out War in West Asia

While people across West Asia mobilized in the tens of millions on the streets of Tehran, Qom, Najaf, and Karbala to pay tribute to the martyred Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the U.S. and Israel hatched new war crimes against millions of people throughout the region. In the face of the new onslaught, the unity of fronts of struggle across West Asia remains unbroken and continues to resist the imperialist treachery.

The people of the world must stand with them in their resistance for genuine peace and self-determination across Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine and beyond. Resist U.S.-Led War Movement condemns the American-Zionist moves towards all out wars of aggression and urges actions by the world's people to mobilize to stop the wars and raise solidarity with the people's resistance.

The Breakdown of U.S.-Iran MOU and a Return to All out War

The breakdown of the U.S.-Iran MOU has led to the return to a full-scale U.S. war of aggression on Iran. The June 17 interim agreement, a 14-point memorandum, which was supposed to extend a 60-day ceasefire across all fronts including Lebanon, was designed to permanently end military operations. As Point 1 stated: "The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other." However, with Israel already engaging in a multi-front genocidal war stretching from Gaza and the West Bank to Iraq, Lebanon, and now Iran, the agreement’s collapse confirms the lack of US genuine interest in stopping the war, only shamelessly pursuing its own economic interests at all costs.

Iran made it unequivocally clear that it would not tolerate a piecemeal implementation of the MOU, and after several violations from the first day of the agreement by both Israel and the U.S., Iran closed the strait of Hormuz several times. Tehran declared that Iran's territorial integrity would be defended and that there would not be free flow of vessels in the Strait of Hormuz until all of the MOU conditions are met. As signed in the agreement by the both the US and Iran, deviations from the full 14-point agreement, especially regarding Lebanon, would be met with disruptions to the waterway through which 20% of world oil exports pass. As of July 16th - Iran said it considered itself "no longer bound" by the MOU, due to U.S. violations.


U.S. Zionist "Peace" Efforts Mean Redistributing the War

The U.S.-Iran MOU clearly includes the cessation of hostilities on Lebanon, yet the U.S. and Israel continue pressing to remove Lebanon from the MOU negotiations. The U.S. aimed to isolate the Lebanon front while pursuing escalation on the Iran front. Although the interim agreement called for ending hostilities across all fronts, Israel insisted on retaining forces in southern Lebanon and placing conditions for withdrawal on the disarmament of Hezbollah, while Israel retained the right to bomb any target they deemed as a threat.

The Trump administration sponsored separate negotiations between Lebanon and Israel to use the sell-out Lebanese state to discuss Lebanon on separate terms. The Lebanon-U.S. framework immediately undermined the U.S.-Iran MOU’s pledge to ensure "the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon," but also laid the basis for a return to tit-for-tat strikes between the U.S. and Iran.

Just days after Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran on February 28, Israel invaded Lebanon and has since occupied a large swathe of the country’s south. With a subsequent U.S.-mediated Israel-Lebanon framework tying Israel’s full withdrawal to Hezbollah’s disarmament, Israeli withdrawal is essentially therefore not the starting point of the agreement, but leverage to sell out Lebanese sovereignty, normalize relations with Israel and give away the people's right to defend themselves and their land. After two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Rome, in mid July, Lebanon and Israel took steps toward implementing “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon where Israeli forces would withdraw and turn over control to the Lebanese army, under the stated intention to clear these areas of Hezbollah fighters. Trump once again repeated his proposal for the former Al-Qaeda turned Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to send forces into Lebanon to “take care of” Hezbollah.

The Lebanese people have decried this framework as the treachery by the government that sacrifices Lebanese sovereignty under the guise of ceasefire negotiations. The Israeli occupation of the South and the bombing of the entire country is materially carrying out its Gaza strategy in yet another war. Over 4,000 people have been murdered in the attacks with over 10,000 injured. Roughly a fifth of the Lebanese population has been displaced. Sixty-four hospitals and clinics have been hit, and more than 100 health workers have been killed.


The targets of Iranian strikes are the American terrorist outposts in the Gulf, while the targets of American strikes include hospitals and civilian infrastructure

This week there has been a return to escalation of drone and missile strikes between Iran and the US on a regional scale. Iranian officials have furiously condemned U.S. military actions as blatant war crimes. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on X on Thursday that the U.S. carried out a “barbaric” attack and 211 patients “undergoing chemotherapy” were evacuated from Shahid Baghaei Specialised Hospital in Ahvaz. Later, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, called out the strikes as “war crimes” and denounced U.S. attacks on civilian infrastructure as “undoubtedly a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the fundamental principles of international law.” Araghchi also highlighted the bombing of Minab primary school, the school in southern Iran that the U.S. and Israel bombed on the first day of the war, killing at least 168 children. The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) confirmed it had targeted command centers, air defense sites, and coastal surveillance facilities across Iran, including Bandar Abbas and Greater Tunb Island, while simultaneously restarting strikes on civilian infrastructure including grain silos and bridges, and struck close to the mourning crowds gathered in their millions to grieve the Supreme Leader. Saudi Arabia, led by the U.S. lapdog family dictatorships, struck Sanaa Airport just nine minutes before the scheduled arrival of an Iranian aircraft, as Iran proceeded to break the imperialist blockade of Yemen. This U.S. aggression has only deepened Iranian resolve to fight and continue standing against imperialist aggression on Iran, and in defense of Palestine and Lebanon, with protesters flooding the streets despite the aimed bombing.

In response, Iran has launched its own wave of powerful counterattacks, with the Khatim Al-Anbiya headquarters issuing a stern warning to the United States, declaring the Strait of Hormuz an "invincible red line" and promising the total destruction of regional infrastructure and Israeli targets in response to any American military aggression. Since the return to all out war, Iran has launched attacks on the radar systems, Patriot defense system, and fuel depots of the U.S. Army at the Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait; communication and radar systems and Patriot facilities at the Sheikh Isa base in Bahrain; and American F-15, 16, and 35 fighter jets and MQ-9 strategic drones at the Azraq base in Jordan. Iran released a communique with a message to the people of Kuwait: "Do not allow the enemy to use your land to aggress and commit crimes against the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen. Do not miss any opportunity to strike at American interests and expel the soldiers of the Great Satan from your land."

Following the renewed U.S. attacks and violations of the MOU, Iran's retaliatory strikes killed 2 additional American soldiers on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, east of Amman, Jordan, bringing the total U.S. deaths to 17, according to the U.S. Department of War. The U.S. imperialist class willfully sent these young people to be killed in the war, at bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain that are located thousands of miles from U.S. shores, positioned there for the sole purpose of ensuring imperialist interests of the U.S.


Iran is besieged as it continues steadfast support in defense of Palestine

Iran's staunch support for the Palestinian liberation has remained steadfast in spite of the maneuvers of the U.S. and Israel to try to divide the Axis of Resistance.

The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine continues to worsen, with countless victims still trapped beneath the rubble and strewn across roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews remain unable to reach them. Since the ceasefire took effect on October 11, 2025, the toll has already reached 1,127 martyrs, 3,643 injuries, and 800 retrievals, while the overall death toll from the "Israeli" aggression since October 7, 2023, has climbed to a staggering 73,250 martyrs and 173,751 injuries, according to the Ministry of Health as of July 16, 2026. Meanwhile, Gazans live in perpetual displacement and Israel has daily violated the Trump-brokered ceasefire since it was declared last October, including severely limiting humanitarian aid flows into Gaza. Materials essential for any serious reconstruction work are blocked. Israeli forces have repeatedly moved forward from the agreed ceasefire line, which split the strip roughly evenly between Israeli- and Hamas-controlled sections, now directly occupying more than 60% of the territory and creating an expanded buffer zone beyond that.

Amid this dire reality, investment fantasy, thinly veiled as a humanitarian relief project, envisioned by Donald Trump's Board of Peace (BoP) has been rehashed from a full-scale Gaza blueprint to a tiny pilot scheme in the south of the strip. The envisaged pilot involves a temporary camp for only a fraction of Gaza's two million displaced people, with a Palestinian administration, police, and a small international security force drawn from Morocco and Kosovo, totaling 5,000 troops. The center represents little more than a concentration camp within a concentration camp, another tactic in the same genocidal strategy since the beginning of Zionist occupation. The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a body of 13 Palestinian professionals and technocrats composed by the BoP early this year, has been barred from entering Gaza by Israel and remains based in Cairo, rendering it effectively powerless to implement any meaningful governance or recovery on the ground, fulfilling the purpose of expanding the occupation as designed.

Against this backdrop of relentless military expansion and genocide, the ceasefire itself is a mere façade for continued Israeli occupation and collective punishment. The fundamental issues in Gaza of occupation, siege, and the systematic denial of basic necessities, remain at the heart of the conflict, so any ceasefire that ties Israel's withdrawal to the disarmament of the resistance forces only entrenches Israel's control over Palestinian territory. Gaza's survivors are subjected to yet another chapter of forced displacement and deliberate starvation under the guise of a "peace" process that delivers nothing but more suffering.


We must rally in support of the liberation struggles across West Asia against ongoing U.S.-Zionist rampage

The Resist US-Led War Movement firmly condemns the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war of aggression and the expanding occupation that has brought death, displacement, and destruction across West Asia. We demand an immediate and unconditional end to all U.S.-Israeli military operations and the full withdrawal of occupying forces from every inch of Palestinian and Lebanese territory. We stand in unwavering solidarity with the people's resistance against imperialism and apartheid, recognizing that the struggle for liberation is a righteous response to decades of oppression, siege, and systematic ethnic cleansing. The so-called ceasefires, "peace" frameworks, and pilot schemes promoted by the Trump administration and the Board of Peace are nothing but smokescreens for U.S. imperialist treachery, designed to fragment the region, disarm resistance factions, and impose a new colonial order that serves Western hegemony while trampling on the sovereignty of nations.

We call on all peoples of conscience to support the just cause of the Palestinian, Iranian and Lebanese people, and fight for a West Asia free from occupation, genocide, and U.S-led war.

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