This is what we are dealing with now in Iran: Imperialist powers, led by the United States, are preparing the ground for an attack, portending bombardment, civil war, and immense destruction. At the same time, the Iranian state has sealed off the country and cut all lines of communication, and is killing those inside. The government broadcasts, on its own television service, images of the corpses of its victims lying in the street in front of Tehran’s forensic medicine office, stating baldly that they “were killed.” To justify this horrific crime, it also broadcasts scenes of public property being set on fire, and shamelessly, after two years of genocidal Israeli propaganda about “human shields,” the Iranian state has adopted the same discourse for itself, issuing official statements warning families not to allow their teenagers and young people to join the protests, because “the terrorists” will use them as “human shields.” How have these competing death cults come to encircle Iran from within and without?…