I went back today & looked at the faces of the young and beautiful Iranians, Americans, Israelis and others whom Khamenei and his goons murdered. You’re not supposed to celebrate the death of someone but he was not made in God’s image — but Satan’s.
Death to the Dictatorship.
🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 My take:
Trump’s speech wasn’t a regime change speech — and I wish it had been.
I’ve spent years arguing that the only durable solution to the threat from the Islamic Republic isn’t another nuclear deal, isn’t just another round of sanctions, and isn’t only another military strike that sets the program back by months or years. It’s the end of the regime that has been waging war on America, Israel, and its own people for 46 years. But that’s not exactly what Trump prioritized tonight, and we need to be honest about what he did — and didn’t — say.
What he did do was set two clear and critical priorities.
First, the elimination of Iran’s reconstituting nuclear and missile programs. He won’t accept a freeze or a cap or a negotiated pause that Tehran will cheat on the moment the pressure lifts. He will only accept full dismantlement, zero enrichment and zero reprocessing. That’s the right standard.
Because here’s what we know: Iran is sealing tunnels at Esfahan and moving centrifuges deep underground. It’s accelerating work at Pickaxe Mountain — buried even deeper than Fordow — to build a new enrichment facility that conventional bombs can’t reach. The weaponization sites at SPND and Taleghan 2 inside Parchin that were struck by Israel in June are being actively rebuilt right now.
And China is shipping thousands of tons of solid-fuel missile propellant to Iran in open defiance of UN sanctions, while Tehran is close to finalizing a deal for supersonic anti-ship missiles designed to kill American sailors in the Persian Gulf. Iran is rebuilding its ballistic missile program and also has an active ICBM program designed to target the American homeland.
The nuclear program didn’t end in June 2025. It was severely set back but it’s coming back. Elimination — not degradation — is the only acceptable outcome.
Second — and this is where I think Trump may have done something historically significant — by working with Israel to target elements of the regime’s repression apparatus, he handed the Iranian people a window. Maybe the last window in a generation, as he noted.
The Islamic Republic has survived every crisis by deploying its security forces against its own population. Evin Prison, the Basij, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the IRGC units that gunned down more than 30,000 protesters in the streets in January. These are not just human rights atrocities; they are the guarantors of the regime’s survival. When you degrade them, you change the internal calculus. You give the Iranian people — who have risen up in 2009, 2019, 2022, and again in January 2026 — a fighting chance to finish what they started. Trump was right to give them a choice: defect or die.
I’ve always believed that maximum pressure on the regime and maximum support for the Iranian people are two sides of the same coin. Tonight’s speech moved the needle on the pressure side. Whether the Iranian people can seize this moment, whether the regime will be degraded enough, whether the will is there, whether the world will back them — I don’t know. History rarely announces itself in advance. But this is the best chance we’ve had in 46 years.
Israel calls its current operation — “Operation Roaring Lion.”
Last year: “Operation Rising Lion.”
The lion is Iran’s symbol — not the regime’s. It belongs to the Iranian people.
May the Lion in the flag roar and the Sun rise — for freedom. 🇮🇷
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Today, Sunday, in the darkness of the Iranian Nazi regime's hell, everyday citizens are being slaughtered. I won't let the world forget.
In Syria today, the Kurds are being ethically eliminated by Turkey and Syria. I won't let the world forget.
I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.
Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!
💔I admit that I never imagined the depth of sacrifice Iranians are capable of.
Milad Hassan Zadeh, a 17-year-old boy, left a farewell note for his family before heading out to protest.
I’m sharing his words because that was his own request, to make sure his voice would be heard. Let’s make sure his wish is honored.
“I’m heading out to the protests. If I am killed, or if I am arrested, know that I chose to live with honor and dignity.
If I am meant to die, then it is better that I die on the path of courage and honor.
Whatever happens to me, I want the news to spread like an explosion, so that I become a model for the rest of my generation. January 2, 2026, signed by Milad Hassan Zadeh.”
💔I admit that I never imagined the depth of sacrifice Iranians are capable of.
Milad Hassan Zadeh, a 17-year-old boy, left a farewell note for his family before heading out to protest.
I’m sharing his words because that was his own request, to make sure his voice would be heard. Let’s make sure his wish is honored.
“I’m heading out to the protests. If I am killed, or if I am arrested, know that I chose to live with honor and dignity.
If I am meant to die, then it is better that I die on the path of courage and honor.
Whatever happens to me, I want the news to spread like an explosion, so that I become a model for the rest of my generation. January 2, 2026, signed by Milad Hassan Zadeh.”
💔I admit that I never imagined the depth of sacrifice Iranians are capable of.
Milad Hassan Zadeh, a 17-year-old boy, left a farewell note for his family before heading out to protest.
I’m sharing his words because that was his own request, to make sure his voice would be heard. Let’s make sure his wish is honored.
“I’m heading out to the protests. If I am killed, or if I am arrested, know that I chose to live with honor and dignity.
If I am meant to die, then it is better that I die on the path of courage and honor.
Whatever happens to me, I want the news to spread like an explosion, so that I become a model for the rest of my generation. January 2, 2026, signed by Milad Hassan Zadeh.”