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Iran President Pezeshkian released a lengthy text addressed to the American people ahead of Trump's address to the nation. This text stands out as an exemplary case of an ethical, harmonious, responsible and deep thinking state leader, something we didn’t see from a Western politician for a very long time.

He also warns: "Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders"

FULL LETTER BELOW:

"To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life:

Iran—by this very name, character, and identity—is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers—and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbors—Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.

The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness—not a temporary political stance.

For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful—the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.

Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran—a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done—and continues to do—is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.

Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or tension. The turning point, however, was the 1953 coup d’état—an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalization of Iran’s own resources. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distrust among Iranians toward U.S. policies.

This distrust deepened further with America’s support for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately, unprovoked military aggression—twice, in the midst of negotiations—against Iran.

Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown stronger in many areas: literacy rates have tripled—from roughly 30% before the Islamic Revolution to over 90% today; higher education has expanded dramatically; significant advances have been achieved in modern technology; healthcare services have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives.

At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people’s lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth: when war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible.

This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country “back to the stone ages” serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?

Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the U.S. government—choices that served the delusions of a foreign aggressor.

Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength; it is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution.

Is it not also 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 threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar—shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region, and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests?

Is “America First” truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today?

I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants—educated in Iran—who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Today, the world stands at a crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential; its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that remains of them are tarnished names in history, while Iran endures—resilient, dignified, and proud."

Feral Finster's avatar

All true, however, it doesn't matter.

Anne Thacker's avatar

Thank you so much for posting the Iranian president's statement...May Iran prevail...

nameless's avatar

Thank you so much for posting that letter.

Their president does not talk like a vulgar goon as ours does.

Paulo Kirk's avatar

And more vulgar goons, as in a few tens of millions running the Apocalypic Apparatus:

Warped, neuroperverse, enemy of the state, really, Rubio and a few tens of millions working that apparatus:

Rubio this week: “Imagine an Iran that instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you’d have a much different country.”

Trump (who very clearly needs to arrange some sort of morning meeting with his staff to get their talking points down) this week:

“The United States can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country, we have all these other people, we’re fighting wars! We can’t take care of daycare! You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too! They have to raise their taxes. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”

nameless's avatar

homelessness is sky rocketing, degeneracy, guys in California are walking down the streets with their pants down below their buttocks without any care as if its completely normal, not to mention the ones that are as fat as full sized industrial barrels, drug addiction, corruption, deficits of 40 trillion $s and counting, human and child trafficking. Joblessness, stupidity and cowardice, and the list goes on. AI or more like AS, for Artificial Stupidity fucking up our writings without asking permission. But,....they wanna "free Iran" by blowing up back to the stone age.

Where is this f ing God if he ever existed. The Bible says some of the Joos just argued with Moses in the book of Genesis, and "God" opened up the Earth, they fell in it and he closed it behind them‼️what a load of f*c*s...

And to these scumbags, if one defends themselves they are "terrorists", but the US being The terrorist of aaall terrorist is "freeing the Iranian people" and "installing democracies" around the world. They are NOT capable of installing it in the country they rule or more like hold hostage and exploit to the bone marrow....

CarolAnn Barrows's avatar

Stunningly astute article, Nate.

"the molecules are simply not going to be where they are wanted and needed" actually made me laugh because the world we now live in (and which is rapidly collapsing) has been built primarily on human hubris. We are not in control here. Of course Nature (with all of her molecules) is. The Deciders have ignored her at our peril.

Cause and Effect simply IS.

One correction: we are still very much "during COVID". SARS-CoV-2 has not somehow vanished or become "milder". The populace has been lulled into a deadly and disabling silence.

Please STAY SAFE.

the suck of sorrow's avatar

Curtis "Carpet Bomb" LeMay is an American legacy. His savagery was such an outlier that we Americans forget to worship the memory of the planner of the Dresden firebombing.

Dear Curtis was one of the few generals in favor of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. Generals Eisenhower and Bradley tried to council Truman otherwise.

For mere mortals like Nate, me, and other readers real hurt is on the way. And the material and expertise to rebuild destroyed oil production facilities is in very short supply.

For those in severe weather alleys, the diesel necessary to effect repairs just might not be available. Welcome to hard labor lucky duckies!

Fortunately for me, I have never been proud to be an American. For ardent proponents of American Exceptionalism, the psychic pain is going to be daunting.

Amalek's avatar

Your analysis is spot on, yet solution to bringing US back home to serve "the people" it's very painful but fairly simple.

Mighty dollar is a foundation, simbol and a #1 tool for the imperial aggression.

Once it is divorced from oil (petro-dollar), new banking system can be build with several currencies in play, and it should be more than one, and US can be brought back to it's shores.

Israel would collapse.

First financially, followed by demographics and that could be a precursor for entering a new and more stable period for the world.

Josephine Pretty's avatar

i have been studying Chinese together with Western astrology for over forty years. When I looked up Trumps sign when he first became President I was shocked. I only told a few people simple because they just poo poo it. What I stated then has come to pass. I have just done Hegseth and it's just as bad if not worse than Trump. Monkey are always playing about but together with the Metal Element makes for a very dangerous man indeed. Pity most people never believed me. Both are Gemini which could indicate changing their minds.

Anne Thacker's avatar

Praying that they will change their minds or be rendered incapable of carrying our their psychopathic and sadistic urges...

AtomsDNA's avatar

Trump’s pledge to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages” was the third time he used this exact language in two days. But his earlier calls were barely mentioned as news items, let alone made the subject of condemnation on editorial pages. The same newspapers that peddle lurid claims about the Iranian government killing tens of thousands of protesters earlier this year, that gasp in horror at the actions of the Russian government, do not find a call to annihilate a country’s civilization worth mentioning.

In the media commentary that followed Trump’s prime-time address, discussion was dominated by whether he had “made his case,” not that the president of the United States had issued a criminal declaration of intent to carry out mass murder.

Not a single Democratic leader has responded to Trump’s “Stone Age” statements. Five weeks into the bombing, not one committee in either chamber has held a public hearing.

Trump’s genocidal threats are not simply the ravings of one man. He speaks for a capitalist oligarchy—for a ruling class that can no longer defend its interests through democratic forms and legal methods, and that answers deepening crisis with violence abroad and dictatorship at home. Via https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/02/qfyu-a02.html

Allen's avatar

When you realize that the two most profitable businesses are war and illness it's easy to understand what's going on.

Covid™ was a racketeering operation manufactured to replace the phony “War (on) of Terror”- it was never a health emergency. What a miracle that yet another “worldwide crisis” miraculously morphed into a ruling class multi-purpose golden opportunity that became the largest upwards transfer of wealth in history.

And now we are back to straightforward racketeering and mass slaughter via the MIC- yet another racketeering operation (and war crimes)- for and from the ruling class with psychos like Witkoff, Lutnick, Adelson, Kushner, etc. directing the script. More public monies in record amounts will be siphoned into the greedy paws of these hedge fund parasites and the economy will most assuredly tank even further causing mass suffering domestically along with the mass murder internationally.

Anyone who thinks that these lunatics are just crashing the economy accidentally or incidentally has not been paying attention over these past 6 years.

nameless's avatar

He wants to bomb them "back to the stone age" because they don't rape their little girls and little boys and eat feces off their intestines like he does. They don't auction them off as he does ours in his Big Beautiful Brothel Mar-a-lagoo. If this low life scumbag is not the Anti-Christ who is?!?!

Whatever happened to the so called "American Values"?!?! I guess, yet just another hoax in the mix of the rest of the others.

Kathy Price's avatar

Why can't we lift people up instead of tearing them down, bombing their buildings, murdering their children? Starving them, taking away all medical aid, denying them water that is essential for life - it's inhumane.

Paulo Kirk's avatar

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/democrat-sort-a-left-substackers

Democrat-sorta Left Substackers and Podcasters are having Orgasms Over "You Are Fired" Pedophile in Chief (sorta)

AtomsDNA's avatar
2dEdited

'Crimes against peace: The Nuremburg Trials precedent and the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran. On March 27, David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, delivered a lecture of exceptional political and historical significance at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) in Nuremberg, Germany... David North also underscored the role of the media as an instrument of war propaganda. Citing the Nuremberg prosecution of Hans Fritzsche, head of the Nazi Press Division, he recalled that the media’s role in promoting aggressive war was treated at the trials not as a peripheral matter but as an integral component of the criminal enterprise. By this standard, North argued, the propagandists promoting the present war—whether writing for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or their German counterparts—are themselves culpable under the principles established eighty years ago.' https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/02/bynq-a02.html

Ahenobarbus's avatar

"Yes this is sadism. Yes this is an openly announced war crime. Yes it shows that this was never about helping the Iranian people."

Worse still, it appears that genocide will not be restricted to the innocent of Gaza. Genocide appears to be Zio Imperialism's new official foreign policy. If a people does not slavishly submit to the Zios every demand promptly, they will be genocided. They are now bragging about this in every official statement.

It is now extremely clear that this is a war between Zio Imperialism and humanity. A river of blood will forever separate the two camps. The only way forward for humanity is over the bones of a destroyed Zio Imperialism.

For the wage slaves of the West this means there is no good cop, no voting or even protesting (to whom!?) your way out of hell. Workers will organize and refuse to work until their anti Imperialist political demands are met or they will increasingly suffer alone as alienated hyper exploited slaves.

An Soviet must be built in the West to defend the working class and ultimately take power from the uniformly Zio Imperialist political and economic elite. We are all Palestinians in their eyes.

Feral Finster's avatar

"Worse still, it appears that genocide will not be restricted to the innocent of Gaza. Genocide appears to be Zio Imperialism's new official foreign policy. If a people does not slavishly submit to the Zios every demand promptly, they will be genocided. They are now bragging about this in every official statement."

This has long been obvious. What does anyone propose to do about it?

ahenobarbus's avatar

I think I said what is to be done, FF. What do you propose?

Feral Finster's avatar

If I had good ideas, I would have meowed a long time ago.

Mike Parr's avatar

The post makes excellent points.

Le May and Hoss (commandant of Auschwitz ) seem to have much in common – zero empathy.

In the case of Iran, & speaking as a power systems engineer, generation capacity = +/- 93GW, 75% gas powered. Of course the US could destroy a lot/most/all of that. The Ruzzians have tried to do much the same in Ukraine, last winter. How did that work out?

China, world leader in… gas turbines, world leader in solar. In 2025, China installed 360GW of new solar (nope I ain’t got the number wrong). Sunny country Iran. Could China supply new OCGTs and CCGTS? Yup. Could it help Iran install 50GW? 80GW of PV, yup. Clever people the Iranians (so are the Ukrainians – that is how they have survived for so long). Point: the orange imbecile and his acolytes don’t know much & are not open to learning. Which means they are heading for a fall. Obvs, the Iranians deserve a better gov' be nice if they were left to their own devices to chose one.

Marty Gray's avatar

I concur🙏. The Earth 🌍 has declared, invert the Empire entity🌀.