My earliest reminiscence is a silhouette of chaos framed by a window. I used to be three years previous, peering out from our condo in central Tehran. Below, the town of my delivery was dissolving into a nightmare I used to be too younger to identify. I bear in mind the acrid, choking scent of burning tires that appeared to seep through the glass. I bear in mind the rhythmic, guttural chanting of males who sounded possessed. In my toddler’s thoughts, I made up songs about snakes and weapons—harmless rhymes for a world that had immediately turned predatory. I did not know then that the “snakes” have been the architects of a violent, hateful theocracy that would spend the next 47 years attempting to strangle the soul of my people.

As a Jewish household, we did not have the luxurious of “waiting to see” what the Islamic Revolution would carry. We noticed the shadow falling. We fled to the United States shortly after, arriving as refugees in a land that supplied us one thing the Mullahs had abolished: a future.

I owe this nation a debt I can never absolutely discharge. The United States took a younger boy who had seen fires in the streets of Tehran and gave him the instruments to develop into a doctor, a scientist, and a voice in our national discourse. Every time I deal with a affected person or communicate on digicam, I’m acutely aware of the fact that I’m dwelling the “stolen life” of those I left behind. This gratitude is what fuels me—but it is also what haunts me.

For practically 5 many years, I’ve watched from across the ocean as the most sensible, cultured, and poetic civilization in historical past was turned into a prison. This is the catharsis of this second: the belief that the “long night” is finally, mercifully, coming to an end.

We must be sincere about what this regime is. It is not a authorities; it is a terminal disease. For forty-seven years, they’ve perverted a religion to justify the blinding of protesters and the systematic rape of ladies in the darkish corners of Evin Prison. They took a nation of musicians, scientists, engineers, and poets and tried to drive them into a monochromatic existence of mourning and concern. They banned the very issues that make life value dwelling—singing, dancing, the free exchange of an thought—and changed them with a cult of death that exported terror to every nook of the globe at the financial and social expense of its people.

But the human spirit has a breaking level, and the Iranian people have reached it.

After years of “false starts” where the world watched in silence as the regime crushed the desires of the youth, one thing has basically shifted. This is not just a protest; it is an exorcism. The concern that once belonged to the people has been transferred to the tyrants. You can see it in the eyes of the IRGC; they know the mathematics has modified.

This revolution is different because the world—and particularly the American management—has finally stopped apologizing for our strength. For years, the regime thrived on Western hesitation. That period ended last June. When President Donald Trump ordered the decisive strike on Iran’s nuclear services, he did not just destroy centrifuges; he destroyed the regime’s aura of invincibility. It was a signal to every Iranian in the road: The world’s superpower is no longer on the facet of your oppressors. Under the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” 2.0, the regime is suffocating. They are bankrupt—spiritually, morally, and financially. And as the people hear the daily, clarion calls for restoration from Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, they see a bridge back to the Iran they misplaced—a secular, affluent Iran that values its historical past and its place in the fashionable world. Pahlavi represents the dignity that the Mullahs tried to erase.

I’m often requested if Iran can really transition to democracy. My reply is that Iran is maybe the most “ready” nation on earth for this change. We are speaking about a population that respects ladies, and that is extremely educated, tech-savvy, and deeply pro-Western. These should not people who need to be taught the worth of freedom; they’re people who have been starved of it and are prepared to feast.

The fall of this regime would be the best “peace deal” in the historical past of the Middle East. Overnight, the #1 source of global terror will vanish. Hamas and Hezbollah—the butchers who have killed so many of our own American brothers and sisters—will discover their bank accounts empty and their masters gone. In their place will emerge a new Iran: a global hub for science, tourism, and commerce. A true good friend to the United States.

This is the second for a closing push.

To the Trump administration: Stay the course. Your resolve is the oxygen for this revolution. Do not let the “experts” in the legacy media let you know that “stability” is better than this transition. There is no stability in a death cult. The people of Iran are begging you to help end the bloodshed on the streets.

To the legacy media: Stop the “both sides” reporting. There is no “both sides” when one facet is capturing women in the eyes for displaying their hair. Tell the reality about the heroism on the streets of Isfahan and Shiraz.

I believe back to that three-year-old boy at the window in 1979. Today, there is another three-year-old boy looking of a window in Tehran. He sees the smoke, and he hears the shouting. But for the first time in practically half a century, those sounds do not signal the end of his world. They signal the start of it.

The snakes are being pushed out. The window is finally opening. And while I’ll always stand on this facet of the glass as a proud and grateful American, I can finally look through it and see a world where that little boy will get to keep, thrive, and be free.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s daring management, we’re revered on the world stage, and our enemies are being put on discover.

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