Iranians Smuggle Out Messages Begging Trump Not to Spare the Regime

Iranians, fearful that the sacrifices of their anti-regime uprising will be erased, have smuggled messages to The Jerusalem Post over recent days, pleading with the United States not to hand the Islamic Republic a lifeline. Speaking with Israelis is treated as a criminal offense in Iran, and the regime has routinely accused dissidents of ties to Israel’s Mossad to justify its campaign of executions. After masses of protesters were killed in January and thousands more were arrested or disappeared, those who reached out did so on condition of anonymity.

One older professional, identified only as Z., described the “great deal of hope” Iranians placed in Washington and Jerusalem after the American president promised in January that help was on its way. While the regime has acknowledged fewer than 4,000 deaths and blamed foreign-backed rioters, human rights groups estimate the true toll at closer to 30,000, obscured by internet shutdowns and mass disappearances. Z. wrote that the people of Iran are in a very bad psychological state and have little hope for the future, noting that little had improved since Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father, Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in February.

The Iranians warned that a deal granting the regime billions in frozen assets, sanctions relief, and the freedom to sell oil would crush any remaining hope of change. “If an agreement is reached, people will completely lose hope for changing the regime,” Z. wrote, adding that most people he knew were hoping the war would resume. He placed his trust not in internal reform but in continued pressure and force from abroad, viewing the United States and Israel as forces of liberation for a nation desperate to be free.

(JPost/VFI News)

Heavenly Father, we cry out for the people of Iran who long for freedom from a cruel regime, asking that You comfort the grieving and strengthen the persecuted, that You expose and dismantle every instrument of oppression, that You grant discernment to the leaders weighing the path forward, and that You reveal Yourself to multitudes of Iranians and draw them into Your saving light. In Yeshua’s Name we pray.