The longest war of the twentieth century was between Iran and Iraq and lasted for eight years. Yet during those eight years, Iraq killed fewer Iranian civilians than the Islamic Republic has reportedly killed in the past two weeks. The regime’s security forces enter hospitals, not merely to arrest protesters, but to shoot them in the head. In the piles of bodies visible in the tragic videos circulating online, some corpses, with bullets in their heads, still have hospital monitors attached. This is a government at war with its own people. It is an occupying force that does not see Iranians as citizens, but as expendable sacrifices for the larger goal of spreading Islamic revolution across the world.

This is a historic opportunity. Millions have risen up in Iran. Tens of thousands have given their lives

Which legitimate government would charge some families between $5,000 (£4,000) and $7,000 (£5,000) simply to return the bodies of relatives it has killed? One of the Islamic regime’s most brutal forms of torture is forcing families searching for their daughter, brother, sister, or mother to visit warehouses stacked with bodies, where they must look through corpses to find their loved one. Under the Islamic Republic, an Iranian does not even have the right to retrieve the body of a family member murdered by the state.

It is therefore no surprise that Iranians inside Iran are calling for help from Donald Trump. The........

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