“Your resistance to imperialism has prevailed in the court of global opinion, which is the only arena that counts.”
Tehran, April 16 – Former Labour leader and current You Party Chairman Jeremy Corbyn touched down in the Iranian capital this week for a solidarity visit amid the smoking ruins of what used to be key regime infrastructure, consoling his surviving friends there by sounding a familiar note: they may have lost thousands of soldiers, their entire navy and air forces, combat effectiveness, regional proxies, billions worth of equipment, entire bases, and aligned the entire Arab world against them while impotently responding to Israeli and American air attacks, but they won the argument.
Wearing his trademark beige jacket and carrying a reusable bag emblazoned with “No War But Class War,” Corbyn toured sites recently redecorated by those precision strikes. He posed for photographs in front of collapsed buildings, mangled missile launchers, and craters where underground nuclear-related facilities once stood, according to satellite imagery and IDF assessments.
At a carefully staged meeting with the remaining senior clerics and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials, Corbyn delivered his message with characteristic earnestness. “You have won the argument,” he told his hosts, nodding solemnly as translators relayed the words. “The international community must now recognise that your resistance to imperialism has prevailed in the court of global opinion, which is the only arena that counts.”
Sources close to the visit described the mullahs exchanging glances that mixed gratitude with mild bewilderment. One IRGC commander reportedly replied that while the argument may indeed have been won, the air defence systems had unfortunately not received the memo.
Corbyn, undeterred, continued: “It is an incredibly difficult situation for the people of Iran, who face aggression simply for standing up for their sovereignty and for the Palestinian cause.” He made no mention of the regime’s own missile barrages, proxy wars, or domestic suppression, preferring instead to focus on the need for “respect for Iran’s sovereignty” and “dialogue without preconditions.”
Local residents, some still clearing rubble from streets coated in black soot from burning oil depots and arms stockpiles, watched the delegation pass with expressions ranging from indifference to quiet amusement. One elderly man was overheard muttering, “He seems nice. Tell him the electricity has also lost the argument.”
Corbyn reportedly laid a wreath at a site where, according to Iranian state media, civilians had suffered due to “Zionist aggression.” He called for an independent inquiry into the strikes, which, because they were conducted by Israel, constitute war crimes, and urged Britain to lift all remaining sanctions, arguing that economic pressure only hardens resolve – unless it targets Israel, which of course must be the real object of sanctions and boycotts.
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