Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust and oil

Since the G-20 meeting the world has once again had to witness a saber-rattling attempt to force Iran to abandon its right to develop nuclear power. It is orchestrated by the great imperialist powers of the world in Washington, London, Berlin and Paris, who themselves are armed to the teeth with thousands of nuclear weapons.

In the course of this campaign these powers, along with their client state of Israel, have resumed their attacks on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regarding the Holocaust.

Whatever misguided statements Ahmadinejad may have made about the Holocaust in the past, certain important things must be borne in mind by progressive-minded people.

In particular, any references to the Holocaust in the big business press have nothing to do with concern for the suffering of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazi regime. Nor do they have anything to do with concern for the present security of the Jewish people.

Attacks on Ahmadinejad over the question of the Holocaust are really about the security of the oil companies, the Pentagon, the entire U.S. ruling class and its apartheid Zionist client state of Israel. They have been trying to overthrow the Iranian Revolution since it overcame the CIA-backed shah in 1979, took the country’s oil back from U.S. and British oil companies, and ousted the Pentagon from a strategic position astride the oil-rich Persian Gulf.

The greatest enemy of the Jewish people is the anti-Semitic U.S. ruling class, which refused to grant entrance to Jewish refugees from Hitler and pushed them toward Palestine. After the war, Washington used the bourgeois Zionist leadership to establish a military beachhead in the Middle East. Thus Washington pushed the Jewish people, under the dominance of the Zionist Israeli state, into a permanent confrontation with hundreds of millions of oppressed Arab and Muslim peoples—all to serve the interests of imperialism, nothing else.

All the hypocritical talk of the Holocaust out of the mouths of U.S. ruling-class politicians and pundits should not divert attention for one minute from the aggressive aims of Washington. Hands off Iran!