There is an unspoken agreement between US and Iran to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region.
Losing Islamist Iran period means losing Iraq to a power vacuum.
Losing Islamist Iran to communists is doomsday scenario for capitalists, the resource rich region is filled with unpopular regimes and immiserated workers. Iran and Iraq (the most susceptible for revolution) alone make up a quarter of the world oil supply. The stakes are too high to allow an unpredictable mass movement (that cannot be entirely controlled) to overthrow the regime.
Iran poses zero threat to western imperialism, in fact in places like Iraq and Lebanon it is the lever that is maintaining it. Decades of wheeling and dealing through backchannels have exposed this myth for what it is - a false dichotomy that sets the ideological framework for US and Iranian imperialism in the region, so-called "Axis of Resistance" and "Forces of Order"
Does this mean they're in agreement on everything and Iran is secretly run by da juice? Of course not, that's conspiratorial and Kautskyist nonsense. They're united in so far as their class interests meet, mostly in suppressing workers and maintaining the status quo.
Will this last forever? No, eventually a war will break out due to capital's growing contradictions and the need to counter overproduction through destruction. The region and the world broadly have yet to fall into designated camps for such event to happen, that will spark the a third global imperialist war.
Don't fall into this false dichotomy, or prepare to be disappointed. Learn from the communist parties in the region who have reached this conclusion.
No war but class war
>>2648960>2nd pic>foreign invasion = domestic policingAre you this stupid or do you think we are this stupid?
>>2648960>losing Islamist Iran to communists is doomsday scenario for capitalistsUnfortunately, there's no communist/socialist force that could make this a possibility.
Two capitalist powers fighting over regional hegemony.
The more likely outcome of a post-Iran-collapse power vacuum in Iraq is another civil war with Shiite and Sunni militias
>>2649056>Unfortunately, there's no communist/socialist force that could make this a possibility.There are several parties more disciplined and organized than anywhere else in the world. It is unclear when/if they can turn into a mass movement.
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I agree. The corpse of the cold war is slowly fading away, and the excuse that the world is divided in "ideologies" is fading with it.
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answer the first post, shill