Iran’s regime interprets the new wave of protests that erupted there in late December as foreign interference. This rhetoric is not new to Iran’s regime; it has used it for decades, starting with the Green Movement in 2009, and continuing through the protests of 2017, 2019, and 2022.

A wretched life is lived by women and their children under capitalist systems whose flames scorch the entire world, foremost among them the United States. Women in Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Gaza, the West Bank, and elsewhere, have seen these tragedies with their own eyes and heard them with their own ears.

After decades of costly experiments with direct warfare, the preferred option for Western powers has become managing conflict from a distance through economic, financial, and technological sieges, and by reshaping supply chains, rather than undertaking large-scale invasions. In this context, food, especially wheat, comes to the fore as a silent strategic ammunition:

Those who spread falsehood, transgress, and oppress believe they can harm whomever they please and do whatever they want to people without accountability. They display arrogance, brutality, torture, and murder to terrorize people, and recruit some as henchmen and collaborators, who use instruments to inflict harm. They consider themselves an invincible force, beyond reproach or questioning.