Wednesday 24 June 2026
Armed military personnel in camouflage uniforms stand guard on a city street during a public gathering with an Iranian flag visible in the background.
Shay Khatiri /

Signing Away the Future of Iran

After promising to help the besieged Iranian people, Trump inked a deal to strengthen their butchers.
Armed police from a special unit stationed on the corner of Revolution Square in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

For months, journalists have been playing deal or no deal with Iran. Entirely forgotten is that the Iranian people are still the same citizens who lost 40,000 of their compatriots mere months ago. The average Iranian ceased having a normal life in January.

Iranian revolutionaries asked for this war, hoping that it would bring down the Shiite autocracy they loathe.

Shay Khatiri is a researcher at CAMERA and vice president and senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute.

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