Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has launched an open letter to the American individuals, questioning whether or not Washington is really placing “America First” or merely appearing as a “proxy for Israel” keen to battle “to the final American soldier.”
Within the Wednesday message, which traces the roots of US-Iran tensions again to the 1953 coup whereas condemning current bombings of Iranian infrastructure, Pezeshkian notes that Tehran harbors no enmity towards bizarre People.
As a substitute, he urges the U.S. populace to look previous “manufactured narratives,” arguing that the perceived Iranian menace is an invention of the military-industrial complicated and Israeli political pursuits.
The complete textual content of the president’s letter follows under:
Within the identify of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
To the individuals of the USA of America, and to all those that, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, proceed to hunt the reality and aspire to a greater life:
Iran—by this very identify, character, and id—is without doubt one of the oldest steady civilizations in human historical past. Regardless of its historic and geographical benefits at numerous occasions, Iran has by no means, in its fashionable historical past, chosen the trail of aggression, growth, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained stress from international powers—and regardless of possessing navy superiority over a lot of its neighbors—Iran has by no means initiated a struggle. But it has resolutely and bravely repelled those that have attacked it.
The Iranian individuals harbor no enmity towards different nations, together with the individuals of America, Europe, or neighboring international locations. Even within the face of repeated overseas interventions and pressures all through their proud historical past, Iranians have persistently drawn a transparent distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. It is a deeply rooted precept in Iranian tradition and collective consciousness—not a short lived political stance.
Because of this, portraying Iran as a menace is neither per historic actuality nor with present-day observable info. Such a notion is the product of political and financial whims of the highly effective— the necessity to manufacture an enemy with a view to justify stress, preserve navy dominance, maintain the arms trade, and management strategic markets. In such an setting, if a menace doesn’t exist, it’s invented.
Inside this identical framework, the USA has concentrated the most important variety of its forces, bases, and navy capabilities round Iran—a rustic that, a minimum of because the founding of the USA, has by no means initiated a struggle. Latest American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a navy presence actually is. Naturally, no nation confronted with such circumstances would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has achieved—and continues to do—is a measured response grounded in authentic self-defense, and under no circumstances an initiation of struggle or aggression.
Relations between Iran and the USA weren’t initially hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American individuals weren’t marred with hostility or pressure. The turning level, nevertheless, was the 1953 coup d’état—an unlawful American intervention aimed toward stopping the nationalization of Iran’s personal assets. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic course of, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep mistrust amongst Iranians towards U.S. insurance policies. This mistrust deepened additional with America’s assist for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein in the course of the imposed struggle of the Nineteen Eighties, the imposition of the longest and most complete sanctions in fashionable historical past, and finally, unprovoked navy aggression—twice, within the midst of negotiations—in opposition to Iran.
But all these pressures have did not weaken Iran. Quite the opposite, the nation has grown stronger in lots of areas: literacy charges have tripled—from roughly 30% earlier than the Islamic Revolution to over 90% as we speak; greater schooling has expanded dramatically; vital advances have been achieved in fashionable expertise; healthcare companies have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a tempo and scale incomparable to the previous. These are measurable, observable realities that stand unbiased of fabricated narratives.
On the identical time, the harmful and inhumane affect of sanctions, struggle, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian individuals should not be underestimated. The continuation of navy aggression and up to date bombings profoundly have an effect on individuals’s lives, attitudes, and views. This displays a elementary human fact: when struggle inflicts irreparable hurt on lives, properties, cities, and futures, individuals won’t stay detached towards these accountable.
This raises a elementary query: Precisely which of the American individuals’s pursuits are actually being served by this struggle? Was there any goal menace from Iran to justify such conduct? Does the bloodbath of harmless kids, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical services, or boasting about bombing a rustic “again to the stone ages” serve any function apart from additional damaging the USA’ international standing?
Iran pursued negotiations, reached an settlement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The choice to withdraw from that settlement, escalate towards confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression within the midst of negotiations have been harmful selections made by the U.S. authorities—selections that served the delusions of a overseas aggressor.
Attacking Iran’s very important infrastructure—together with power and industrial services—immediately targets the Iranian individuals. Past constituting a struggle crime, such actions carry penalties that reach far past Iran’s borders. They generate instability, enhance human and financial prices, and perpetuate cycles of pressure, planting seeds of resentment that can endure for years. This isn’t an illustration of energy; it’s a signal of strategic bewilderment and an lack of ability to realize a sustainable resolution.
Is it not additionally the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian menace, seeks to divert international consideration away from its crimes towards the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now goals to battle Iran to the final American soldier and the final American taxpayer greenback—shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the area, and the USA itself in pursuit of illegitimate pursuits?
Is “America First” actually among the many priorities of the U.S. authorities as we speak?
I invite you to look past the equipment of misinformation—an integral a part of this aggression—and as an alternative converse with those that have visited Iran. Observe the various completed Iranian immigrants—educated in Iran—who now train and conduct analysis on the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to probably the most superior expertise companies within the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you might be being informed about Iran and its individuals?
In the present day, the world stands at crossroads. Persevering with alongside the trail of confrontation is extra pricey and futile than ever earlier than. The selection between confrontation and engagement is each actual and consequential; its consequence will form the longer term for generations to return. All through its millennia of proud historical past, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that is still of them are tarnished names in historical past, whereas Iran endures—resilient, dignified, and proud.
