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                                        Israel and the United States
                                        Cannot Win the War against Iran:
                                        The Tenth Newsletter (2026) </td>
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                                        In the middle of negotiations,
                                        the United States and Israel
                                        launched a new attack against
                                        Iran based on an old, and false,
                                        argument: that Iran was going to
                                        build nuclear weapons. </td>
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                                                  Tabrizian (Iran), <i>Tehran</i>,
                                                  2006.</small></p>
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                                              the girls of </i><i>the </i><i>Shajarah
                                              Tayyebeh</i><i> </i><i>elementary
                                              school in Minab, Hormozgan
                                              Province, Iran, who were
                                              killed by the illegal
                                              Israeli-US war of
                                              aggression.</i></p>
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                                            friends,</p>
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                                            28 February, a few hours
                                            after negotiators said that
                                            Iran had accepted many of
                                            the demands regarding its
                                            nuclear programme, the
                                            United States and Israel
                                            launched strikes on Iran.
                                            This was the second strike
                                            since the United States and
                                            Israel attacked Iran in June
                                            2025. Both strikes are
                                            illegal, since they violate
                                            Iran\u2019s sovereignty, which is
                                            guaranteed by the United
                                            Nations <a
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                                          <p
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                                            is a sovereign country and,
                                            just like the United States,
                                            a founding member of the
                                            United Nations. It is
                                            therefore entitled to all
                                            the benefits and
                                            responsibilities of the UN
                                            Charter. The United States
                                            signed and ratified the UN
                                            Charter, which means that
                                            the US government has a
                                            treaty obligation to the
                                            Charter and to the other
                                            member states. After
                                            President George W. Bush
                                            violated the UN Charter to
                                            start a war of aggression
                                            against Iraq, US President
                                            Donald Trump told Howard
                                            Stern on 16 April 2004, \u2018I
                                            think Iraq is a terrible
                                            mistake. And to think that
                                            when we leave, it\u2019s gonna be
                                            this nice democratic
                                            country. I mean give me a
                                            break\u2019. Trump is not taking
                                            his own advice.</p>
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                                                  Pakzad (Iran), <i>Barber
                                                    Shop</i>, 1958.</small></p>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Why
                                            did the United States want
                                            to attack Iran, a country
                                            with nearly a hundred
                                            million people and a
                                            centuries-long tradition of
                                            patriotism, first in 2025
                                            and then in 2026? In his
                                            last State of the Union <a
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                                            Trump said that the main
                                            reason was that he believed
                                            that Iran has a nuclear
                                            weapons programme. Yet Iran
                                            has repeatedly said that it
                                            does not have a nuclear
                                            weapons programme. This was
                                            laid out clearly by
                                            Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
                                            in a <a
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true"><i>fatwa</i></a>
                                            (judgment) that he first
                                            made public in 2003, but
                                            which had been written a
                                            decade earlier. In that
                                            fatwa, Ayatollah Khamenei
                                            noted that Iran\u2019s soldiers
                                            suffered from the use of
                                            illegal mustard gas and
                                            other chemical weapons by
                                            Iraq (supplied by the United
                                            States and West Germany),
                                            and that this experience and
                                            his reading of Islamic
                                            ethics made it
                                            unconscionable to use
                                            weapons of mass destruction.
                                            Leader after leader in Iran
                                            has reiterated the same
                                            view.</p>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">In
                                            the State of the Union
                                            address on 24 February,
                                            Trump said, \u2018We haven\u2019t
                                            heard those secret words, <i>we
                                              will never have a nuclear
                                              weapon</i>\u2019. But this is
                                            precisely what Ayatollah
                                            Khamenei had said. In fact,
                                            a few hours before Trump\u2019s
                                            address, this is exactly
                                            what Iran\u2019s foreign minister
                                            Seyed Abbas Araghchi <a
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">tweeted</a>:
                                            \u2018Iran will under no
                                            circumstances ever develop a
                                            nuclear weapon\u2019. On 17
                                            February, Iran\u2019s President
                                            Masoud Pezeshkian <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&amp;id=9ce16fcfa7&amp;e=d206d0a40d"
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">said</a>,
                                            \u2018Based on the fatwa of the
                                            Supreme Leader, from an
                                            ideological standpoint we
                                            are absolutely not pursuing
                                            nuclear weapons, and however
                                            they wish to verify it, we
                                            are prepared\u2019. He asked, \u2018In
                                            what language should we say
                                            we don\u2019t want nuclear
                                            weapons?\u2019. His statement, in
                                            Farsi, was translated into a
                                            range of languages. Yet it
                                            seems that news of this did
                                            not reach the White House.</p>
                                          <div
class="single-post--content--media-block single-post--content--image"
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                                            <div id="attachment_136717"
class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async"
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-136717"
class="size-large wp-image-136717 img-responsive mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sohrab-Sepehri-Iran-Untitled-1960s-1024x716.jpg"
                                                alt="" width="1024"
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sohrab-Sepehri-Iran-Untitled-1960s-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sohrab-Sepehri-Iran-Untitled-1960s-300x210.jpg 300w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sohrab-Sepehri-Iran-Untitled-1960s-768x537.jpg 768w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sohrab-Sepehri-Iran-Untitled-1960s.jpg 1200w"
sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" border="0"
style="max-width: 100%;width: 100%;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;"
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                                              <p
id="caption-attachment-136717" class="wp-caption-text"
style="text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;"><small>Sohrab
                                                  Sepehri (Iran), <i>Untitled</i>,
                                                  1960s.</small></p>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">In
                                            1957, Iran and the United
                                            States <a
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">signed</a>
                                            the Agreement for
                                            Cooperation Concerning Civil
                                            Uses of Atomic Energy, which
                                            allowed the US to transfer
                                            nuclear technology and
                                            materials through the Atoms
                                            for Peace programme <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&amp;id=7b7d4a983a&amp;e=d206d0a40d"
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">created</a>
                                            by President Dwight D.
                                            Eisenhower. In 1959, the
                                            Iranian government \u2013 then
                                            controlled by the last Shah
                                            of Iran, Mohammad Reza
                                            Pahlavi \u2013 opened the Tehran
                                            Nuclear Research Centre.
                                            Several years later, the US
                                            provided Iran with a
                                            5-megawatt thermal nuclear
                                            reactor that was designed
                                            for medical radioisotope
                                            production and scientific
                                            research.</p>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">After
                                            the Iranian Revolution of
                                            1979, the new government
                                            shut down the nuclear energy
                                            research programme.
                                            Following the war with Iraq,
                                            which ended in 1988, and the
                                            death of Ayatollah Ruhollah
                                            Khomeini in 1989, Iran
                                            restarted its nuclear energy
                                            programme for electricity
                                            generation, medical isotope
                                            production, and scientific
                                            training. In 1995, Iran
                                            signed a deal with Russia to
                                            rebuild the Bushehr Nuclear
                                            Power Plant in Iran (built
                                            in 1975 by the West Germans
                                            and bombed by the Iraqis
                                            using West German
                                            intelligence). Again,
                                            Iranian officials have
                                            repeatedly said, <i>we do
                                              not want nuclear weapons
                                              ever</i>. The US did not
                                            seem to disbelieve the
                                            Iranians when it restarted
                                            nuclear energy programmes
                                            for these purposes.</p>
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                                            <div id="attachment_136685"
class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async"
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-136685"
class="size-full wp-image-136685 img-responsive mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Farah-Ossouli-Iran-Untitled-2003.jpg"
                                                alt="" width="550"
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Farah-Ossouli-Iran-Untitled-2003.jpg 550w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Farah-Ossouli-Iran-Untitled-2003-300x300.jpg 300w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Farah-Ossouli-Iran-Untitled-2003-150x150.jpg 150w"
sizes="auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" border="0"
style="max-width: 100%;width: 100%;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;"
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                                              <p
id="caption-attachment-136685" class="wp-caption-text"
style="text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;"><small>Farah
                                                  Ossouli (Iran), <i>Untitled</i>,
                                                  2003.</small></p>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Everything
                                            changed after the US
                                            attacked Afghanistan in 2001
                                            and Iraq in 2003, removing
                                            Iran\u2019s two historical
                                            adversaries (the Taliban and
                                            Saddam Hussein\u2019s
                                            government). Iran, which was
                                            previously hemmed in by its
                                            neighbours, now had the
                                            opportunity to build
                                            relations with Iraq, Syria,
                                            and Lebanon. This was a
                                            shock to Washington, which
                                            had not clearly understood
                                            the ramifications of its
                                            illegal wars. To isolate
                                            Iran, the Bush
                                            administration concocted the
                                            myth of Iran\u2019s nuclear
                                            weapons ambitions and
                                            cynically used the
                                            International Atomic Energy
                                            Agency (IAEA) for its
                                            campaign.</p>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Bush,
                                            as he often did, ignored the
                                            facts before him. What were
                                            these facts?</p>
                                          <ol>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">In
                                              2007, the US intelligence
                                              community\u2019s <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&amp;id=6d04fe646e&amp;e=d206d0a40d"
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">National
                                                Intelligence Estimate</a>
                                              concluded, \u2018We judge with
                                              high confidence that in
                                              fall 2003, Tehran halted
                                              its nuclear weapons
                                              programme\u2019. Whether Iran
                                              actually had a nuclear
                                              weapons programme before
                                              this date is not the
                                              issue; the CIA and other
                                              agencies agreed that there
                                              was no programme after
                                              2003.</li>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">In
                                              2011, an IAEA <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&amp;id=d47903fc97&amp;e=d206d0a40d"
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">report</a>
                                              suggested that Iran\u2019s
                                              actions to procure various
                                              kinds of materials
                                              (\u2018nuclear related and dual
                                              use equipment\u2019) indicated
                                              a \u2018possible military
                                              dimension\u2019, but with no
                                              evidence. Each of the
                                              accusations came with
                                              caveats. It seemed that
                                              the IAEA was under immense
                                              pressure from the US
                                              government and its
                                              European allies. The
                                              report bore all the marks
                                              of political influence.</li>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">In
                                              2015, the IAEA released
                                              its <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&amp;id=96c54dadf4&amp;e=d206d0a40d"
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true"><i>Final
                                                  Assessment on Past and
                                                  Present Outstanding
                                                  Issues regarding
                                                  Iran\u2019s Nuclear
                                                  Programme</i></a>,
                                              written by its director
                                              general, Yukiya Amano.
                                              This report conclusively
                                              says that there are \u2018no
                                              credible indications\u2019 of
                                              any activities relevant to
                                              a nuclear explosion device
                                              after 2009 and no credible
                                              evidence of diversion of
                                              nuclear material for
                                              weapons.</li>
                                            <li
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">In
                                              2025, IAEA Director
                                              General Rafael Mariano
                                              Grossi <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&amp;id=d630d04f9e&amp;e=d206d0a40d"
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">told</a>
                                              Al Jazeera definitively,
                                              \u2018We did not find in Iran
                                              elements to indicate that
                                              there is an active,
                                              systematic plan to build a
                                              nuclear weapon\u2019.</li>
                                          </ol>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">There
                                            can be no clearer statement
                                            than that of Grossi: \u2018we did
                                            not find\u2019. Put that beside
                                            the statement from President
                                            Pezeshkian: \u2018in what
                                            language should we say we
                                            don\u2019t want nuclear
                                            weapons?\u2019.</p>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">There
                                            are no nuclear weapons in
                                            Iran. To go to war on that
                                            pretext is to follow the
                                            example of Bush and his
                                            \u2018weapons of mass
                                            destruction\u2019 in Iraq. Where
                                            were those weapons? In his
                                            imagination.</p>
                                          <div
class="single-post--content--media-block single-post--content--image"
style="text-align:center; margin:3em 0;">
                                            <div id="attachment_136709"
class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async"
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-136709"
class="size-large wp-image-136709 img-responsive mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kazem-Chalipa-Iran-Reunion-n.-d-1024x763.jpg"
                                                alt="" width="1024"
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kazem-Chalipa-Iran-Reunion-n.-d-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kazem-Chalipa-Iran-Reunion-n.-d-300x224.jpg 300w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kazem-Chalipa-Iran-Reunion-n.-d-768x572.jpg 768w, https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kazem-Chalipa-Iran-Reunion-n.-d.jpg 1200w"
sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" border="0"
style="max-width: 100%;width: 100%;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;"
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                                              <p
id="caption-attachment-136709" class="wp-caption-text"
style="text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;"><small>Kazem
                                                  Chalipa (Iran), <i>Reunion</i>,
                                                  n.d.</small></p>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                          <p
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                                            there are great problems
                                            within Iran. A combination
                                            of the attempt by the United
                                            States and Europe to make
                                            Iran\u2019s economy scream and
                                            poor economic management by
                                            Minister of Economic Affairs
                                            and Finance Seyed Ali
                                            Madanizadeh (trained at the
                                            University of Chicago) have
                                            created serious problems for
                                            Iran\u2019s working people. But
                                            Iran cannot solve its
                                            problems without an end to
                                            the US-imposed hybrid war
                                            that suffocates its economy
                                            and its peoples.</p>
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id="caption-attachment-136741" class="wp-caption-text"
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                                                  Issakharian (Iran), <i>The
                                                    First Supper</i>,
                                                  2016.</small></p>
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                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">The
                                            Iranian people know war very
                                            well<!-- Should we maybe start with colonial wars rather than 1980? Anglo-Persian war and so on. Would be more dramatic and tie to the early part of the letter which mentions Iran\u2019s tradition of patriotism. -->.
                                            It has been imposed on them
                                            repeatedly, from the
                                            Anglo-Persian War
                                            (1856\u20131857) to the Iraqi
                                            invasion (1980) to the
                                            current hybrid war.</p>
                                          <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">In
                                            the poem \u2018Lidless Coffins
                                            with No Bodies\u2019, the Iranian
                                            poet Behzad Zarrinpour (born
                                            1968) wrote about the terror
                                            of war, a terror that was
                                            inflicted by Bush\u2019s
                                            \u2018terrible mistake\u2019. I want
                                            to share a part of that
                                            beautiful and impactful poem
                                            with you:</p>
                                          <blockquote
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">
                                            <p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">The
                                              Wind has filled the city\u2019s
                                              nostrils<br>
                                              with destruction\u2019s odour.<br>
                                              No one flees the harsh sun<br>
                                              For the gentleness of
                                              unstable walls.<br>
                                              Spread-out inhospitable
                                              tablecloths,<br>
                                              Empty promises,<br>
                                              Stomachs that instead of
                                              bread<br>
                                              Eat bullets,<br>
                                              And bankrupt salt sellers<br>
                                              Who have dispatched their
                                              gunnysacks<br>
                                              To the war front to be
                                              swelled with sand.<br>
                                              Grandmother\u2019s tongue is so
                                              terror-struck<br>
                                              She cannot remember her
                                              prayers.</p>
                                          </blockquote>
                                          <p
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