While the United States regime has asserted its intention to militarily intervene in Iran over foreign-backed riots, its own federal agents are — unsurprisingly — murdering random people in the streets.
The scene of Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) killing Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday flips the US narrative about protests-turned-riots in Iran on its head.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deployed more than 2,000 officers to Minneapolis – the area with the highest Somali population in the US – in what it said is its largest immigration enforcement operation ever.
After dropping off her child, Good, a 37-year-old mother, was fatally caught in the thrall.
Eyewitness footage and testimony showed Good telling the officers she was pulling out, then the officers rushed her vehicle. She posed no threat, tried to drive away, and was shot in the face three times. ICE then blocked ambulances and medical care from reaching her, leaving her to bleed to death.
The White House, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE, and Republican politicians immediately launched a coordinated narrative to legitimize the cold-blooded murder, claiming that Good was a “domestic terrorist” and a “professional agitator.”
They accused her of being a protester trained to deliberately run officers over with her car. Good’s former husband confirmed she had no history of political involvement, and was a stay-at-home mom, poet, singer, and “devoted Christian.”
Now the federal government is actively thwarting an investigation: The head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said on Thursday that the US attorney’s office had barred it from taking part in the investigation and that “the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.”
Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers, such as Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, have done nothing but display performative outrage, call for an independent investigation, and deploy the state’s National Guard to suppress protestors — when they could be deploying local law enforcement to force ICE out of their cities.
Governor Walz also deployed the National Guard to brutally crack down on the 2020 uprising after police murdered George Floyd just a few blocks from where Good was killed.
Less than 24 hours later, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents shot two migrants in Portland, Oregon, after pulling them over, hunting for a Venezuelan “gang” member, deploying the same excuse that the victims allegedly tried to run the agents over with their car.
This narrative is becoming central to ICE’s defense of their crimes because local patrols in cities across the country follow ICE vehicles around, alerting their communities of ICE’s presence to prevent abductions and deportations — a form of direct action that directly hampers ICE’s ability to carry out what can only be described as their goal to “whiten” US society and save it, in the words of DHS itself, from being “besieged by the Third World.” (Of course, it is the US that is besieging the Third World, not the other way around.)
While it is an aberration in the Minneapolis case that the victim was a white mother, ICE and police shootings in the US are far from abnormal: they are standard policy. Mapping Police Violence reports the police killed 1,301 people in the US in 2025.
And for the imperialist West, every accusation it makes against its geopolitical enemies is a projection, a self-indictment.
In Iran, what started out as peaceful protests over genuine economic grievances were hijacked by the US and Zionist regimes into violent anti-government riots, with armed rioters killing Iranian law enforcement, attacking hospitals, burning government buildings, desecrating dozens of mosques and holy sites, and calling for the return of the Israeli-backed monarchy.
The US and Mossad proudly admit their involvement on the ground, with former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeting, “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also, to every Mossad agent walking beside them.”
In a Farsi-language social media post, Mossad encouraged rioters to “Go out together into the streets. The time has come,” adding that Mossad operatives are with the rioters “not only from a distance and verbally. We are with [them] in the field.”
Meanwhile, peaceful protests aimed at strengthening Iranian national sovereignty that reject imperialist co-optation, like the recent massive labor strike at South Pars Gas Refinery, are completely ignored in Western media.
Trump, whose hands, in the words of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, are already “stained with the blood of more than a thousand Iranians,” has repeatedly stated that if the Iranian government kills any “protestors,” the US will strike Iran.
Ayatollah Khamenei exposed the hypocrisy of this statement, pointing out how there are constant riots in Paris, France, for example, and imagine how the world would react if Iran interfered in them and openly bragged about it?
But it is more than mere imperial hypocrisy. These foreign-backed riots in Iran, parallel but for completely different causes, reveal the deepest truths about each country:
In the US, protestors are struggling against a fascist regime that is committing genocide and war crimes across the world, while in Iran, violent Western-backed rioters are struggling to destabilize from within.
The character of law enforcement in each country is could not be more opposite. University of Tehran scholar Helyeh Doutaghi illuminated this distinction in her on-the-ground analysis of the South Pars Gas Refinery strike, where protesting workers were not antagonistic to Iranian law enforcement, but actively protected by them:
“In the imperial countries, the police function as the domestic arm of the empire. They suppress dissent, criminalize resistance, and enforce accumulation through violence, particularly against Black, Indigenous, and other Peoples of Color…In Iran, the Law Enforcement Command exists within a radically different context: a state born of popular revolution, subjected to decades of sanctions, assassinations, sabotage, and overt military threats,” she wrote.
In the US, the policing apparatus evolved out of slave-catching patrols and settler colonial vigilantes, while in the Islamic Republic of Iran, it was born out of popular resistance to the domination by imperialism and its neocolonial comprador class.
We are in a period of global conflict that could accurately be termed World War III. After all, world wars are never termed such until after the fact.
And ICE’s rampages show that the US is also in a state of domestic warfare against its own people. Of course, as a settler colonial entity like Israel, the very existence of the US denotes it being in a constant state of domestic warfare against its Indigenous and African populations since the establishment of its very existence.
Renee Good’s murder shows that no one – not even white US citizens – is safe from the crossfire.
It would be inaccurate to describe any of the US’s escalations – domestically with ICE, or abroad with its attacks on Nigeria, Iran, and Venezuela – as out of character. They are perfectly in line with what the US has always stood for – genocide and war crimes – which is why Imam Ruhollah Khomeini so aptly termed the US “the Great Satan.”
And the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the resistance movements it helps sustain across the region, are the world’s only bulwark against this fascist, imperialist barbarism.
Calla Walsh
Press TV