Exactly this!
I wish people would stop explaining America and israel to us like we’ve only just discovered how the world works.
We know how foreign policy works. We know about interests and power plays and geopolitical games. We’re not blind. We’ve lived through decades of it. We’ve been sanctioned, isolated, used as bargaining chips, and spoken about like we’re a chessboard instead of actual human beings.
People inside and outside of Iran have been in the streets for years, protesting, risking arrest, risking our lives, marching across cities in Iran and across the world, begging people to see us, to stand with us, to pressure their governments to do something. Most people stayed silent.
But now that the U.S. and Israel have taken military action, suddenly everyone has an opinion. Suddenly everyone is on a moral high horse telling us what the “right way” is and warning us about consequences, as if we haven’t thought about that ourselves.
No one needs to educate us on the risks of war. We understand them better than anyone. I was literally born in Iran during a war. This isn’t theoretical for us.
What people fail to understand is that with this regime in power, there is no real safety anywhere. Not for us. Not for the region. Not for the wider world. As long as they remain in control, instability doesn’t disappear, it just gets exported.
Of course people are afraid of escalation. That fear is valid. But pretending that maintaining the status quo equals “peace” is dishonest. It has never been peaceful for us.
47 years ago, people marched in another revolution and took a gamble on a future they believed in. We all know how that turned out. No one is saying what comes next will be perfect. No one thinks it will be rainbows and butterflies.
But today there is a new generation, more connected, more aware, with a completely different vision for their country and They are not naïve.
They are just tired.