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That’s why I can imagine an Iran that exports engineers instead of extremists.
Startups instead of suicide bombers.
Energy instead of hatred...
I can imagine a Middle East where Iran is no longer a source of chaos… but an anchor of stability.
An Iran that does not fear its people, doesn’t threaten its neighbors, doesn’t isolate itself from the world.
Imagining this is not difficult, because this is exactly what Iran once was. And what it can be again.
When Iran is free, the Middle East changes.
When Iran is free, America regains a great friend.
A free Iran represents the single largest untapped economic opportunity of the 21st century.
A nation of 93 million people—highly educated, entrepreneurial, and pro-West—finally unleashed.
Over the next decade alone, a strategic U.S.–Iran partnership could generate more than $1 trillion for the American economy.
Imagine a new Middle East where Iran is a friend of Israel. Where the Abraham Accords are extended into the Cyrus Accords, named for Cyrus the Great, the Iranian king who issued the first charter of human rights, and whose vision of religious tolerance inspired Thomas Jefferson.
Today the Islamic Republic tramples upon Iran’s millennia-old legacy of tolerance for religious minorities, and wages a war on them. In a country with the fastest rate of growth of Christianity in the world, the regime and its IRGC storm into and ransack underground house churches, detain and torture pastors, and persecute and execute evangelists and Christian converts. This is the Islamic Republic. Not the true Iran. Not the vision we have for the future.
Under this vision, Iran, the United States, Israel, and our Arab neighbors are bound together in peace and prosperity rather than conflict and terror.
A Middle East where we will be able to handle our own affairs and manage our own backyard– where we can put an end to the endless wars and allow our American friends to bring back their sons and daughters in uniform and focus where they want to: back home.
A free Iran is not a fantasy.
A free Iran is within reach—right now.
But as we all know, freedom never comes free. My compatriots have shown this. They are not asking for a handout, and they do not expect their freedom to be handed to them on a silver platter. The Iranian people have already paid an unimaginable price for their liberty.
In January of this year, I called on my compatriots to go out and protest against the regime that has oppressed them for 47 years. Millions of them responded, igniting the largest wave of protests in Iran’s modern history—sweeping every single one of our 31 provinces.
On January 8th at 8 o’clock, they took their lives in their own hands and took to the streets to fight against the occupying regime. At that exact moment, Khamenei, Larijani, Ghalibaf, and the rest of their mafia shut off the Internet.
Under the cover of darkness, and with a depravity that shocked the world, they massacred more than 40,000 Iranians, and injured over 300,000. They did not stop their terror on the streets.
Wounded protesters were hunted down in hospital beds and shot in cold blood. Men and women were raped in secret prisons. Even nurses, ambulance medics, and doctors who dared to help protesters were tortured, raped, and killed.
Families were forced to search through thousands of unmarked body bags, and the regime even charged grieving parents for the bullets used to kill their own children. To this day, mothers still search for their sons, and daughters still ask when their fathers will come home.
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