The general secretary of the Workers’ Party (PT), Louisa Hanoune, vehemently denounced, this Saturday, during her speech at the party meeting held in Algiers, what she qualified as a “Zionist-American terrorist aggression against Iran,” estimating that the region is now on the brink of a generalized war with unpredictable consequences.
From the outset, the political leader indicated that she had modified the order of her political report “in light of the serious developments that occurred this morning.” Specifying that “Iran has been and remains the target of terrorist strikes against several cities, including universities and residential neighborhoods,” she stated that these attacks “target the Iranian people as a whole.”
Referring to the statements of the American president, Donald Trump, Louisa Hanoune denounced the “frivolity and indecency” of remarks that, according to her, call on the Iranian people to prepare to take power. “How can one speak of freedom while bombing a sovereign country?” she launched, emphasizing that negotiations were still ongoing in Geneva on the Iranian nuclear dossier. She estimated that “the Iranian side has shown responsibility and rationality, without renouncing its rights or its sovereignty.”
The PT general secretary also affirmed that Iran had retaliated by targeting “military installations in the north of occupied Palestine,” specifying that these were strikes directed against “American military bases in the region.” She supported that Tehran “targets neither civilians nor populations, but exclusively military objectives.”
In this context, she criticized certain Arab regimes which, she noted, “intercept Iranian missiles and thus defend the aggressor’s interests,” judging with conviction that this posture “drops the last masks” and contradicts official discourses claiming support for Arab causes.
For Ms. Hanoune, the current escalation constitutes “an extremely dangerous turning point” likely to set the entire Middle East ablaze. “A global war can extend far beyond the Mashreq, and no one can predict its developments,” she warned, estimating that the American offensive aims above all to “force Iran to capitulate” and divert attention from the internal difficulties of the American Administration.
“We express our absolute, unconditional, and unqualified solidarity with Iran, people and State,” she declared, considering that this country is “targeted in its sovereignty, in its right to independence and to freely decide its affairs.”
Placing this position within a broader political line, she recalled that her party has always defended “aggressed peoples,” notably citing support for Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, and other countries she considers victims of foreign interferences and covetousness.