The Iranian Revolution And African Solidarity
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran, which had been in the making for decades. As a faithful cheerleader for America’s wars, the legacy media narrativized the war in the context of the supposed dangers Iran’s nuclear program posed to the “civilized” world. In reality, the nuclear issue was always secondary and subsidiary to the larger problem: Iranian sovereignty, which the United States, as the Middle East’s imperialist broker, cannot tolerate. From the US’s perspective, Iran’s sovereignty is contagious: it could spread to other Global South countries as far as Africa, which Iran has viewed, since its 1979 revolution, as a strategic partner in the fight against imperialism.