This is the Final Battle

May the Islamic Republic Fall

As of this morning, the intervention Iranians have so desperately asked for has come, and Israel and America have started strikes to end the horrific, blood-soaked reign of the Islamic regime in Iran.

Not a single other country in the world was willing to offer much more than measly mouthed weasel words as tens of thousands of Iranians were slaughtered by the regime over the past two months, while the Islamic regime stood before the UN human rights council and stated it was a “responsible and accountable country in the field of human rights.”

We can predictably expect FreePalestine!™ and the Western “anti-imperialist idiot” brigade on the Left to now be out in force with their spin and misinformation, their broken moral compass tilted towards the Islamic Republic.

A quote I’ve repeatedly shared in recent weeks from Leila Al-Sharma, written during the Syrian Civil War, captures this moment:

“There are many valid reasons for opposing external military intervention in Syria, whether it be by the US, Russia, Iran or Turkey. None of these states are acting in the interests of the Syrian people, democracy or human rights. They act solely in their own interests… Yet in opposing foreign intervention, one needs to come up with an alternative to protect Syrians from slaughter. It’s morally objectionable to say the least to expect Syrians to just shut up and die to protect the higher principle of ‘anti-imperialism’.

I haven’t heard a single person articulate a remotely plausible or useful alternative for how the Iranian people can free themselves from the Islamic regime. Are people in the West, with their so-called “principles”, really saying that Iranians should find some way to overthrow the regime with their bare hands? Would that be morally acceptable to the “anti-imperialists”?

If anyone is truly “anti-war”, they would be firmly against the source of war and destabilisation in the Middle East, which is the Islamic regime. They have brought war, chaos, death and misery to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, and Israel. For decades, they have pursued a foreign policy aimed solely at destruction and conflict-by-proxy. The fact that it is conflict-by-proxy does not make it any less of a war. And this year, the Islamic regime turned that war on its own people.

If, in 1991, a government of any ideological persuasion had slaughtered its own citizens on the scale we’ve witnessed in Iran these past two months, we would have had an immediate U.S.-led coalition of democracies and regional allies to bring down the regime. It would have been a hard red line with zero tolerance. But that brief unipolar moment is long over, the arsenal of democracy is bare, and most Western countries can no longer articulate any clear value proposition for what separates us from Islamism. They can barely support Ukraine with any decisiveness, so anything more than feeble gestures to the Iranian people is hardly surprising.

If I could implore anything of anyone in the coming days and weeks (and maybe months), it would be this: never lose sight of the fact that the Iranian people demand and deserve their self-determination and freedom. This is their movement, this is their moment. They have repeatedly asked for this over the past two months, helpless against the slaughter of the IRGC. These are the only voices that matter right now. Israel and America are providing the one thing that the Iranian people do not have: military power against the regime. To put it plainly, there is no other option: there is no other way the Islamic regime falls.

This is not “warmongering” or a flippant comment about the realities of what lies ahead. My wife has family in Tehran, and we are very, very aware of the realities of war. We are anxious, worried, but hopeful.

Above all, hopeful.

In âkharin nabarde, Pahlavi barmigardeh. (“This is the final battle, Pahlavi will return home”).

Payandeh Iran 💚🤍❤️