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COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA
Central Office: Ajoy Bhawan, 15, Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi-110002
PRESS STATEMENT | 28 FEBRUARY, 2026
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (February 28, 2026) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India strongly condemns the unilateral military attacks carried out by the United States and Israel against Iran. These acts constitute a grave violation of international law and the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter.
Such reckless military adventurism threatens to further destabilise the entire West Asian region, pushing it towards a wider and more destructive conflict. The CPI firmly believes that these attacks are part of a dangerous strategy aimed at imposing regime change in Iran through military force, in complete disregard of the sovereignty of nations and the right of peoples to determine their own political future.
The Communist Party of India demands an immediate and unconditional halt to the ongoing military aggression against Iran by the United States and Israel, and calls upon the international community, particularly the United Nations, to urgently intervene to stop further escalation and protect regional peace, as the continuation of these attacks will only intensify instability, suffering and destruction across West Asia.
The CPI calls upon the Government of India to categorically condemn these attacks. This aggression is taking place immediately after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel and he should speak up against this dangerous militarism. India must not, in any form, be complicit in or supportive of actions that violate international law and endanger regional and global peace. The Government of India also bears the responsibility of ensuring the safety and protection of Indian citizens in Iran and safeguarding our time tested bilateral relationship, including vital trade and investment ties, which are integral to India’s strategic and economic interests.
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Press Release
Condemn the Attacks on Iran
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the attacks on Iran launched by the US and Israel. These attacks are carried out in flagrant violation of Iran’s national sovereignty, the UN Charter and all international treaties.
The US and Israel carried out these attacks ignoring the ongoing negotiations with Iran. It is amply clear from the attacks and the statements of US President Donald Trump that they never believed in these negotiations. The US is acting as a belligerent bully, attacking sovereign countries at will. The attack on Iran follows its recent attack on Venezuela and threats issued to Cuba.
The attack on Iran comes immediately after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his visit to Israel. The Government of India should unequivocally condemn the attacks on its friendly country Iran and demand the immediate cessation of hostilities. ?
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Condemn the US-Israel Military Aggression Against Iran
February 28, 2026
Once again Israel and the US have launched a criminal missile attack on Iran. The attack comes piercing the facade of US talks of diplomacy. The world also understands that this imperialist aggression has nothing to do with the Iranian people’s own struggle against the Iranian government for justice and liberty.
India must insist on an immediate cessation of the attack on Iran.
That the attack started shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel tells us how ill-advised and detrimental to Indian interests that visit was. We call upon all peace-loving people of India and the world to stand with Iran and the Iranian people against this US-Israel military aggression.
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Radical Socialist Statement on the Illegal and Unjustified Attack on Iran
It is now clear that the negotiation process between the US and Iran on the latter’s nuclear energy infrastructure and potential capabilities was meant to serve as a cover while Israel and the US were jointly preparing for a military assault to create stronger conditions for a possible regime change in Iran that would be more accommodating to their respective and shared political ambitions. It is not a coincidence that the day chosen for the attack was an official Israeli commemoration according to Scriptural sources, of the alleged day of deliverance in the pre-Christian era for the Jewish community in ancient Persia (today’s Iran). Moreover, everyone including the West knows that the only country in the region to possess nuclear weapons which will not give them up, is Israel. This inauguration of a war that can extend to the other parts of the region must be forcefully and unequivocally condemned. As for the claim by Washington that this assault is partly motivated by the desire to support the popular struggle against a theocratic dictatorship, this is dishonest dissimulation. You don’t show respect for a peoples’ national independence by kidnapping or assassinating presidents (Maduro and Khameini), or show a humane commitment to the Iranian public by bombing different cities and causing large scale destruction and civilian deaths. One must respect the right of the Iranian people to overthrow their own tyrant. The main reasons for this joint attack lie in the regional and geopolitical ambitions of Israel and the US respectively.
Trump is more committed than even previous US administrations to maintaining Israel as its regional gendarme to control much of the Middle East while being more willing than previous US governments to use brute military force to intervene and expand US areas of control especially in the Indo-Pacific region and in the Arctic as long as direct ground invasions with the risk of serious casualties among US military personnel is avoided. Israel has successfully used the October 2023 Hamas assault as an excuse to launch a wider military campaign that has enabled it to gain more territory and control in Syria and Lebanon, to forcibly expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank as well as carry out a genocide in Gaza that has resulted in its greater direct military control and ghettoization of a greatly diminished Palestinian population. And this has been done with the connivance of the US whose Board of Peace is meant to preserve, and protect, in the longer term this new situation of a much wider regional hegemony of Israel that can also serve the interests of the Trump government. Given the huge asymmetry between the military capabilities of Iran and those of its opponents, the former can only hope that by attacking various US military bases in the region and causing significant casualties to US personnel there, it can push Washington, and therefore Tel Aviv, to call some kind of a halt to this war. Even so, at least in the short run, the US-Israel combination will have gained strategic political-military ground.
The governments of the Arab countries housing such bases and suffering such territorial attacks are, more likely than not, to become more accommodating to the US. As a corollary to this shift, they will have to further reassure Israel that they pose no serious threat to it whether by joining the Abraham Accords or through more informal ways. Only the overthrow of one or more of these Arab governments by their own publics that are rightly and genuinely hostile to the brutal and imperialist behaviours of Israel and the US, can hope to reorganise the regional strategic map in a much more progressive and just direction. But this is not an immediate perspective or perhaps even a short term prospect. As expected, major Western European powers have in one form or the other endorsed what the US and Israel have just done. Others, like India, merely give, mealy mouthed statements of concern about violation of territorial sovereignty without even naming either the victim, Iran, or the victimizers, Israel and the US, let alone take any practical steps to help the former or hinder the latter. Russia and China have made more forceful statements but any expectations from sections of the Indian left that either will take serious steps to oppose the US will be belied. It remains to be seen even to what extent in current circumstances of a raging ongoing war, what military help China might give as distinct from replenishing military supplies when matters quieten down and it is safer politically to do so as well as being economically lucrative.
What are the likely consequences within Iran from what has happened? Neither the US and Israel want any genuine non-theocratic and democratic political order to emerge in that country. That would constitute a threat to the US’s other anti-democratic and monarchical despotic regimes that are its allies in the region and which also informally carry out substantial trade with Israel, especially imports of military hardware. A despotic Iranian regime that will more willingly toe the American line is enough. But even this is by no means a certainty. It is as likely, if not more so, that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) which is the real institutional power domestically in Iran, will control the reins of government for some unknown period and continue to see the US as the Great Satan.
Progressives everywhere must of course voice their opposition to what the US and Israel have just done and call on their own governments to show a much stiffer political spine as well as to take a more moral and democratic stand against such violations of international and humanitarian law. Large scale political protests by the ordinary public in as many countries as possible is required more than ever.
US and Israel to Halt the War on Iran Immediately and Pay Compensation to the Iranian People!
