Substantive peace talks based on the agreed MoU remained a remote and essentially unattainable goal, for the simple reason that the imperialists are not in a position to accept their defeat and walk away.

And, while Iran’s leaders are no doubt able to agree to one or two face-saving gestures and some diplomatic phraseology, the essence of any deal will be that it is laying out the terms of imperialist surrender.

As with Nato’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, the imperialist bloc is doing everything possible to keep the war front burning, albeit at a reduced pace that their depleted arsenals can maintain, in the hopes that multi-front, hybrid warfare will eventually succeed in wearing down and destroying the targeted nations, whom direct military confrontation has so far failed to beat.

True to their “agreement-incapable” form, having signed the MoU on 17 June, the imperialists began breaching its terms almost immediately – and the Iranians for their part have shown themselves vigilant and capable of returning blow for blow, clearly bedding themselves in for a long war of attrition.

There is every reason to expect that the resistance forces, who have been preparing for decades, knowing well that this confrontation would ultimately be forced on them, will in the end prevail.

Ensuring that the British working class finally begins to move and to throw its weight onto the scales against our common imperialist enemy is the most urgent and essential task of anti-imperialists and socialists in Britain.

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