IRAN MUST BE FREE AGAIN
- Benjamin Friedman

- 2 days ago
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IRAN MUST BE FREE AGAIN,
Iran is not its regime. Iran is a people with a long memory, a deep culture, and a soul that has been held underwater for too long.
Since protests began on December 28, 2025, credible reporting and human rights organizations have described mass killings, mass arrests, and severe repression, alongside warnings about lack of due process and the risk of further abuses. This is not “politics.” This is a daily system of fear.
Amnesty International reported that Iranian authorities executed over 1,000 people in 2025, describing an execution crisis and a horrifying escalation. (Fact: late December 2025 resulted in a high death toll, with estimates ranging from over 3,117 to upwards of 36,500 people, including protesters and some security personnel.) Sadly due to the lack of free reporting its higher then these numbers suggest.
The UN Human Rights Council extended the mandate of the Independent International Fact- Finding Mission on Iran and requested an urgent investigation into allegations tied to the protests that began on December 28, 2025.
WHAT REPRESSION STEALS
It steals language, because people learn to whisper.
It steals trust, because everyone fears the wrong ears will hear them.
It steals the future, because young people plan to escape the regime instead of building lives.
And it steals dignity, because a regime that cannot earn love must rule through terror.
WHY THIS MATTERS BEYOND IRAN
In June 2025, during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, I headed to Tel Aviv, ready with two sets of gear. My friends had their go bags. I have been trained to respond to major disasters and for getting trapped survivors out. Thank G d we were safe.
That moment sharpened one thing in me. When life tightens into overnight survival, you can understand what it means for an entire nation forced to live in survival mode for decades. And you also understand what peace could look like if Iran were free.
That war ended with a ceasefire on June 24, 2025, after intense strikes and regional escalation.
KING CYRUS AND THE BETTER FACE OF PERSIA
There is an older story that proves Iran does not have to be the villain in anyone’s narrative.
King Cyrus, a Persian king remembered in Jewish tradition as a righteous potentate, is famously associated with allowing Jewish exiles to return and rebuild in Jerusalem.
That is a spiritual symbol and a historical memory at the same time. It is simple.
A great civilization becomes great when it lets people breathe. Peace comes when the evil regime is gone.
If the regime loses its grip, the first miracle will be quiet. Parents stop fearing knocks at the door. Prisons stop being the shadow behind every conversation. Women stop being treated as a battleground.
Then the second miracle becomes possible across the region.
A free Iran does not need enemies to justify control.
A free Iran can trade, create, study, sing, and build, with pride instead of paranoia.
We will be back together.
I am sure many Israelis would love to travel to an Iran filled with goodwill, to walk through its markets, meet its artists, honor its history, and feel that this part of the world can finally unclench its fists and lay down its arms.
I believe many Israelis will withstand pain if it helps bring an end to an evil regime, so the Iranian people can return to themselves.
Not because anyone wants war, but because the deepest victory is when people are liberated, and the region learns to live without fear.
May Iran be freed.
May the righteous legacy of Cyrus be reborn in a new form, not through conquest, but through conscience and striving for peace.
May we meet again as neighbors—not as nightmares.
Amen, the world will know peace from the blueprint. We have create here in the middle east today!



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