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Avideh Motmaen Far: The mullahs took Iran from its people. America is taking it back
Washington is no longer pretending the regime and the Iranian people are the same
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I am an Iranian-Canadian — one of more than 200,000 in this country who fled, or whose parents fled, the very regime now collapsing under American pressure. We did not leave Iran. The Islamic Republic took it from us. And 47 years later, that distinction still gets erased every time a Western foreign policy desk treats “Iran” and “the regime” as synonymous.
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They are not. The Iranian people are the Islamic Republic’s first and longest-suffering victims. Mahsa Amini, beaten to death by the morality police in 2022 for letting her hair show. The 176 passengers and crew — 55 of them Canadian citizens and 30 Canadian permanent residents — incinerated when the IRGC shot down Flight PS752 in January 2020 and then lied about it for three days. The “Woman, Life, Freedom” protesters answered with bullets, prison and rape. The Baha’is, Christians, Jews, Kurds, Baluchis, Sunni Arabs — who faced discrimination — and the dual nationals taken as hostages and traded for cash. That Iran — our Iran — is the one the regime spends every waking hour trying to silence.
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