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What the world is watching in Iran is not a sudden spark. It is the flame that never died from the ashes of 1979.
That year did not mark the success of a revolution. It marked the burial of freedom. Iranians were promised justice and independence. They were given a theocracy and a firing squad instead. Every uprising since has been a return to unfinished business, but this one is different. This one may be the final battle.
It’s been 17 days. Millions in the streets. More than 400 cities are involved. There’s no foreign funding. No approved slogans. No soft-spoken “opposition” figures in exile. This is raw. This is real. This is organic. This is a revolution the West didn’t design, and that’s exactly why it’s being ignored.
Over 600 people have been killed, including at least 9 children, most from gunshot wounds to the head, neck, and eyes. The regime has shut down the internet, electricity, water, and phone lines. For three full days, the country is in total blackout. Iranians are dying in silence.
Where are the emergency sessions? The UN resolutions? The press coverage? Where are the world leaders calling for regime change as they did for Iraq, Libya, or Afghanistan? Where are the journalists who swarmed Gaza? They’re not coming because this revolution isn’t a product. It’s not a color-coded project they can manage. It’s not chaos they can profit from. It’s an uprising with direction, and they don’t want it to succeed.
Because Iran is not just another country. Iran has always been the crown of the region. It borders two seas, holds two deserts, and rises across two mountain ranges. Its location connects Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Its soil holds oil, gas, uranium, copper, gold, and rare minerals. Iran leads the world in saffron production. It sits on a major opium corridor. It has agriculture, industry, and natural defenses that few countries can match. What happens if Iran becomes free? If this regime falls and the next government is neither a puppet nor a sworn enemy. The entire game ends.
A sovereign, secular Iran led by someone with the credibility of Reza Pahlavi, someone with a legacy of making Iran strong, independent, and stable, doesn’t serve global interests. It threatens them. No more proxy wars. No more excuses for foreign military presence. No more sanctions to manipulate. Even the Islamic Republic is more useful than a restored, confident Iran, because chaos creates leverage. But a leader who can unite the people and rebuild the nation without selling it off to foreign bidders? That’s bad business.
That’s why no one is coming to help. Not the U.S., not Europe, not the media, not the UN. They’re not waiting to see if this revolution wins. They’re waiting to see if it can be hijacked like 1979.
This is not an analysis based on studies or research. This is the lived experience and full-time dedication of someone whose entire adult life has been shaped by this fight. As an Iranian-American, a former child bride, and someone who has seen the inside of this regime’s prison, both physically and psychologically, I have also spent the last 24 years witnessing how Western powers operate from the other side. I have exposed the Red-Green Axis and Islamist supremacy in every corner of the world for over a decade, and knowing where we are today, there are only three ways this ends:
First:
Iranians take the country back themselves. Trained, prepared citizens, already in place, move at the right time. The regime collapses from inside. This is the outcome they all fear most because a free Iran owes them nothing. But even in this scenario, real allies could make the difference between a bloodbath and a breakthrough. Mossad has operated inside Iran before. The United States has the ability to take out critical regime infrastructure without putting boots on the ground. If America still claims to be a friend of the Iranian people and has any interest in correcting the disaster Jimmy Carter helped create, this is the moment to prove it.
Second:
The revolution is hijacked. Foreign actors step in, remove the regime, and install a transition government that keeps them in charge. The slogans change. The faces change. But the outcome is the same. It becomes another failed color revolution added to the list. And once again, the Iranian people will have to fight their way out, just like the Afghans and Iraqis were forced to do after the headlines moved on.
Third:
Khamenei hands power to the IRGC, just as he did during the 12-Day War with Israel. He retreats to his bunker and authorizes a military crackdown while keeping the regime intact. The Islamic Republic survives through force, and this battle continues for Iranians with even fewer tools and even higher stakes.
All eyes are on Iran, and history is taking note. This is the moment for freedom lovers who talk the talk to start walking the walk.
