Iranian writer: I oppose the current regime, but my love for Iran exceeds everything policy

Iranian writer Arish Azizi said in an article for him in a newspaper Washington Post The American, despite his opposition to the Iranian regime, refuses to support the recent Israeli strikes on his country.

Dear added that he was hoping that the regime would fall, but he feared that the war would destroy the lives of the Iranians more than the existing power was destroyed.

He continued that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He justified his attacks as the beginning of the war of liberating the Iranians from the existing regime, inviting them to the revolution, and called the operation.Rising lionIn reference to an Iranian national symbol.

However, Netanyahu’s calls did not echo inside Iran according to the article, as most opposition movements expressed their categorical rejection of the Israeli attack.

It is reported that Netanyahu is required For the International Criminal Court For war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

My dear pointed out that the scenes of the destruction due to Iranian missiles and the fall of the Iranian victims – including poets, artists and children – have been destroyed by allegations of “accurate strikes” that Israel promoted, and confirmed that the civilians are the ones who pay the largest price of this war.

In this photo released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society rescuers work at the scene of an explosion after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (Iranian Red Crescent Society via AP)
Rescue operations at an explosion site after an Israeli raid targeting Tehran (Associated Press)

The illusion of the revolution

The writer emphasized that the circumstances of the war spread the spirit of solidarity, not the revolution in the Iranian street, as doctors, bakers and stations workers volunteered to help those affected by the Israeli bombing.

He said that some Iranian activists abroad have sought to exploit the political chaos of the Iranian invitation to the revolution, led by Reda Pahlavi -the son of the former Shah of Iran Mohamed Reda PahlaviHe presents himself as the leader of the democratic opposition.

The article was sarcastically added that the claim that Pahlavi – whose feet have not been settled for 45 years and did not create during these years any effective political organization – capable of governing more than 90 million people is a fantasy.

The writer also pointed out that Bahwi’s close association with Israeli attacks, as well as his previous meetings with Netanyahu, denied him to his closest supporters.

My dear expressed his concern about the repercussions of the war, which may lead to weakening Iran as a state or its slippage into a civil war, as he expressed his fear of exploiting the external parties of the ethnic divisions in Iranian society to sow sectarian strife and threaten the unity of the country.

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