Many Iranians who stood against the regime are left feeling frustrated and angry as details emerge of the peace deal between Washington and Tehran — worrying that the Islamist hardliners are now more powerful and entrenched than ever.
President Trump signaled that the US was going to war with Iran’s regime partially over the deaths of thousands of anti-regime protesters. “HELP IS ON ITS WAY,” he posted on Truth Social on Jan. 13.
A peace deal would waste all of that progress, 34-year-old Nima Azar told The Post.
“Forty-five thousand dead in two days, probably more. It can’t be for nothing. You’re going to let them rebuild?” said Azar, who joined a legion of anti-regime protestors outside Iran’s latest World Cup match in Los Angeles.
The protestors raged against the regime-sponsored team being allowed to play on U.S. soil — and also Trump’s looming deal with Tehran.
“They are frustrated that the regime is being left in place, unchecked, and soon to receive economic relief from the United States,” Khosro Isfahani, the research director for the Washington-based National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) think tank, told The Post.