What is happening today in Iran demands support.
As publisher of The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, I place this platform at the disposal of Iranian voices, safely and anonymously. Those who wish to speak will be protected. No names. No faces. No identifiable voices. Only truth, presented with care and seriousness. The world must hear what daily life has become for ordinary Iranians, through lived reality.
The men and women filling the streets do not appear to be driven by ideology, factional struggle, or abstract political ambition. They are reacting to a collapse of daily life, when wages lose meaning, food and rent consume everything, and illness can become a financial death sentence. Then protest ceases to be a political act and becomes survival.
The regime responds with bullets, mass arrests, and executions. Authoritarian systems fear social and economic protest more than organized opposition. Such movements have no leaders to imprison, no ideology to discredit, no structure to dismantle. They spread across families, hospitals, universities, and neighborhoods. They expose failure. A government that kills citizens demanding bread and medicine is not strong. It is afraid.
The collapse of Iran’s healthcare system illustrates this fear with brutal clarity. Hospitals lack essential medicines. Doctors are leaving the country. Families are forced to choose between treatment and poverty. When a state can no longer protect its people in moments of vulnerability, it forfeits its claim to legitimacy. The Iranian authorities understand this. That is why they repress and kill.
The Iranian people are not asking the world to fight their battles. They are asking whether the international community still recognizes the difference between a regime and its society; they hope for accountability. President Donald Trump, for one, has responded and publicly warned the continued killing of civilians carries consequences. Such statements matter.
To the men and women protesting inside Iran, I say this: your courage is not invisible. You are demanding dignity. You are asking to live. Tyranny survives on silence and isolation. Your insistence on being seen, even at great personal risk, is already an act of resistance.
Your voices will not disappear into indifference. They will reach policymakers and decision-makers in the United States and beyond. They will be heard not as provocation, but as documentation. Not as accusation, but as testimony.
Iran’s future will be shaped by Iranians themselves. But the world will be judged by how it responds. History does not ask whether speaking out was comfortable. It asks whether silence was convenient.
