{"id":37335,"date":"2026-04-23T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redphoenixnews.com\/?p=37335"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:38:08","slug":"economic-interests-behind-imperialist-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2026\/04\/economic-interests-behind-imperialist-war-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Intereses econ\u00f3micos detr\u00e1s de la guerra imperialista contra Ir\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Victor Vaughn | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland\u2013<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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An F-35C Lightning II and other weapons are staged for flight operations on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of the military’s “Operation Epic Fury” in Iran on March 2. (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The refusal of the U.S. and Israeli governments to dispute the fact that the war on Iran is for American and Israeli capital\u2019s financial interests is staggering. Domestically, the U.S. war with Iran remains unpopular<\/u><\/a>, even among Republicans. It\u2019s no longer a radical or controversial conclusion that the Iran war is for economic interests rather than any supposed security threat or opposition to nuclear weapons. The irony of two belligerent nuclear-armed powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The playbook of imperialist intervention is well-known: Trump did not seek Congressional approval for the attack, acting unilaterally just like the January anti-democratic ouster of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro<\/a>. His justifications for war are blatantly false and have shifted repeatedly: from stopping nuclear proliferation, to a continuation of regional proxies, to supporting Iran\u2019s popular uprisings, to invoking a “preemptive war of self-defense,\u201d an Orwellian justification George W. Bush used to start the 2003 war with Iraq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Feb. 28, 2026, the United States, in alliance with the apartheid state of Israel, launched a criminal war of aggression against Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials. But what is unique about the long-anticipated imperialist U.S. and Zionist war on Iran is the unusually explicit, unapologetic embrace of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conflict was long expected, rooted in the lengthy history<\/u><\/a> of U.S. imperialist intervention in Iran. In 1953, the CIA engineered the overthrow of Iran\u2019s democratically-elected government and the installation of the absolutist Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. Over the next quarter-century, the Shah served as a willing ally to the interests of the U.S. capitalist class. His CIA-trained secret police, SAVAK, became notorious for widespread repression, including the torture and disappearance of thousands of Iranians. In 1971, while 44% of Iranians struggled below the poverty line, the \u201cKing of Kings\u201d threw the most lavish party in history<\/u><\/a> to celebrate his empire\u2019s anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007, retired U.S. General Wesley Clark gave an interview to the independent news program Democracy Now!<\/em> in which he described a conversation he had at the Pentagon about ten days after 9\/11. Clark said an unnamed general allegedly showed him a classified memo<\/u><\/a> and told him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2018We\u2019ve made the decision; we\u2019re going to war with Iraq.\u2019 This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, \u2018We\u2019re going to war with Iraq, why?\u2019 He said \u2018I don’t know.\u2019 […] This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of Iran and its 90 million people, on Apr. 7 Trump posted, \u201cA whole civilization will die tonight,\u201d in an explicit and outright threat of genocide<\/u><\/a> by a sitting President of the United States. These are not idle threats: the Gaza genocide\u2019s death toll stands at over 72,000 people<\/u><\/a>, not including those who died from lack of access to life-saving medical care. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth framed the war as an apocalyptic religious crusade<\/u><\/a>: \u201cGod also stands with the people of Israel against their enemies and blesses those who bless Israel. America should stand with Israel because we honor God and love freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most honest of all was Senator Lindsey Graham, who was candid about the true purpose of the war<\/u><\/a> when he spoke to Fox News on Mar. 8:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Mideast, and we are going to make a ton of money. […] Venezuela and Iran have 31% of the world\u2019s oil reserves. We\u2019re going to have a partnership with 31% of the known reserves. This is China\u2019s nightmare. This is a good investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Netanyahu himself dropped the \u201canti-nuclear\u201d story a day after Israel bombed Iran\u2019s main gas field. Despite also claiming Iran\u2019s ability to enrich uranium had been destroyed, which should theoretically mean the war should end, Netanyahu revealed U.S. and Israeli monopoly capital\u2019s true motives at a press conference in Jerusalem, where he stated his vision<\/u><\/a> of an oil and gas pipeline to channel Middle Eastern petroleum directly through Israeli ports, effectively bypassing the Strait of Hormuz completely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJust have oil pipelines, gas \u200bpipelines, going west through the Arabian Peninsula, right up to Israel, right up to our Mediterranean ports and you’ve just done away with the choke \u200bpoints forever,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cI see that as a real change that will follow this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The pipeline he\u2019s referring to is the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor (IMEC). The ruling classes of the U.S. and Israel have fully admitted that this conflict was started by them in order to destroy Iran\u2019s regional economic influence and clear the path for this project. This is not the sole financial interest, however: an added bonus is allowing Israel to declare war on all its neighbors and seize more land, starting with Gaza and its aggression against Lebanon, and the U.S. to undermine European powers\u2019 influence in the region. While the U.S. is energy independent and can easily weather any financial storm its wars create, Europe is heavily dependent on maritime imports. Europe is paralyzed by a conflict of interest between their military alliance with Washington and potential economic disaster at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more alarming, allegations have emerged of outright corruption. Even bourgeois lawmakers who historically have been fine with insider trading<\/u><\/a>, have raised concerns about half a billion dollars worth of oil trades<\/u><\/a> made on Mar. 23, just minutes before Trump\u2019s post on Truth Social about \u201cproductive conversations\u201d in Iran. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating at least two incidents of well-timed trades generating millions of dollars in oil profits before major policy shifts by the White House, including another just hours before<\/u><\/a> the announcement of the Apr. 7 two-week ceasefire, which netted these mystery investors another $950 million.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American and Zionist aggression against Iran is bound to create huge economic ripple effects throughout the world, but a prolonged conflict will generate enormous profits for several notable industries. Leading the surge are U.S. defense contractors and energy firms such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Palantir, with analysts at J.P. Morgan and Forbes<\/u><\/a> identifying them as the primary beneficiaries, though the high-tech nature of the Iran war is also obvious through the involvement of tech and AI companies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cU.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, has identified more than 20 weapons systems being used in Iran, which are manufactured largely by Lockheed Martin, RTX and its subsidiary Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris Technologies and General Atomics Aeronautical, among others. […] Arizona-based SpektreWorks is behind the one-way \u201cLUCAS\u201d drones that the military said have been used to carry out strikes at a lower cost, while the higher-end Tomahawk missiles reportedly also being used in the region are produced by Raytheon. THAAD interceptors, a different type of missile used to intercept enemy fire, are produced by Lockheed Martin. Those companies and others in the drones and missile space potentially have the most to gain from the strikes, with Catalyst Funds\u2019 chief investment officer David Burns telling Insider, \u201cThe companies that have the most exposure to missile defense systems are the ones that are gonna be the biggest beneficiaries of increased demand.\u201d Software company Palantir has also seen its stock go up as the company provides services for the military, and analysts have suggested European defense companies will also benefit, with analysts at JP Morgan identifying BAE Systems, Renk, Leonardo DRS and QinetiQ as the ones with the most exposure to the U.S. market.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world\u2019s oil flows, has caused the price of crude oil to rise, which has been financially beneficial for oil and energy companies like Exxon, Chevron Corp., and Occidental Petroleum. Trump\u2019s regime is banking on the U.S. monopoly capitalist class being willing to endure disruption to the global economy in exchange for profiteering and long-term gains. The goals of the U.S. is to secure their profit base in the Middle East and secure its hegemony against China and the European Union. Israel, for its part as the proxy of U.S. imperialism in the region, wants a pliant vassal state in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the underlying economic pressures are laid bare, the true nature of the war on Iran and the deeper machinations of capitalist society become apparent, and the empty phrases of Trump\u2019s \u201ctwo-week ceasefire\u201d ring hollow. Deception has been key to the U.S.-Israeli strategy from the start, and this agreement is merely a fragile pause rather than a genuine attempt at deescalation. Negotiations have already stalled, or more likely been deliberately sabotaged<\/u><\/a>. U.S. actions in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are all examples of a hostile and aggressive United States desperate to maintain its crumbling empire against the rise of China as a global imperialist competitor. War is an inevitable product of competition between the capitalist classes of great powers, and a more authoritarian, fascist-leaning U.S. turns increasingly to military force to maintain its global dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. and Zionist war against Iran is fundamentally unwinnable. The U.S. and Israel expected Iran to collapse quickly after the assassination of its leadership, but it did not. Iran itself is a large, populous country with significant military capabilities, and sees the conflict as existential, and thus will not surrender. The U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will severely destabilize the global economy, further alienate allies, and further accelerate the decline of American influence. Inter-imperialist rivalry is intensifying, and without a revived Marxist-Leninist movement, the world risks the beginning of a catastrophic conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Resulta asombroso que los gobiernos de Estados Unidos e Israel se nieguen a refutar que esta guerra responde a los intereses financieros de sus capitales. A nivel interno, la guerra de Estados Unidos contra Ir\u00e1n sigue siendo impopular, incluso entre los republicanos. Ya no es una conclusi\u00f3n radical ni controvertida que la guerra contra Ir\u00e1n responda a intereses econ\u00f3micos, en lugar de a una supuesta amenaza a la seguridad o a la oposici\u00f3n a las armas nucleares. La iron\u00eda de dos potencias nucleares beligerantes.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,97,119],"tags":[199,200,211],"class_list":["post-37335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-us-news","category-war","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-zionism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05-2026_epic-fury.webp?fit=1440%2C810&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41956,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions\/41956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}