Trump, The Iranian Government and The Iranian People

The Iranian people are stuck between a murderous theocratic Iranian regime and a Trump administration with imperialistic ambitions. Neither has the Iranian people's best interests at heart.

REFERENCES
"The Iranian Voices America Isn’t Hearing. We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic’s authoritarianism and foreign military escalation" by Sina Toosi for The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-massacre-bombing-protests/

"I Want Iran to Be Free More Than Anything. I Also Don’t Trust Trump. The president can talk about how he cares about the freedom of Iranians all he wants, but his actions make that hard to believe" by Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani for The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/207183/war-iran-dont-trust-trump

"Trump’s Intervention in Iran Will Be a Disaster. Iranians have been trying to complete their democratic revolution for over a century. Every time the US gets involved, it sets that project back by decades" by Vivek Chibber for Jacobin Magazine
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/protests-revolution-iran-war-intervention

"What About Those Celebrating Iranians? We’ve Seen This Movie Before. MAGA-heads scoff at liberals: Isn’t it great to see those overjoyed Iranians? Um, yes, but history, alas, warns us sternly against premature celebrations." by Michael Tomasky for The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/207191/iran-war-trump-regime-change

"War in Iran is a reckless venture" an editorial by The National Catholic Reporter
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-war-iran-reckless…

"Iraq, Iran, Irate. We’ve seen this picture before" by Harold Meyerson for The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/2026/03/02/iraq-iran-trump-war/