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March 1, 2026
The Iranian Voices America Isn’t Hearing
We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic’s authoritarianism and foreign military escalation.
Sina Toossi
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Iranians gather at Palestine Square in Tehran carrying Iranian flags, chanting anti-US and anti-Israel slogans to protest the attacks by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026.
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When the streets of Iran ran red last January, when mothers searched hospital corridors for sons who never came home, when the internet went dark and the state called its own people “rioters,” something remarkable happened.
From prison cells.
From house arrest.
From union organizers and writers’ circles.
From Kurdish towns and Tehran universities.
Iranian civil society spoke.
Current Issue
March 2026 Issue
They condemned the Islamic Republic’s mass killings as crimes. They demanded accountability, freedom, and transformational change. They called for a referendum and a constituent assembly. They rejected clerical authoritarianism.
And they rejected war.
Now that war has been launched—after weeks of US and Israeli officials speaking casually about “bombing” and “military buildup,” and many of the people most battered by the Islamic Republic warning that foreign military intervention would not liberate them. It would bury them.
Mir Hossein Mousavi is not an exile or a fringe dissident. He was Iran’s prime minister during the war with Iraq in the 1980s. He was the leading challenger in the disputed 2009 election that gave birth to the Green Movement. For more than a decade he has been confined to his home, cut off from public life, for demanding accountability and fundamental political change.
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In the aftermath of the January massacre, which left thousands of protesters dead, Mousavi declared that “the game is over.” He called the killings a historic crime. He urged security forces to lay down their arms. And he proposed the formation of what he called an Iran Salvation Front, a broad national coalition to guide a peaceful democratic transition.
His framework rested on three principles: no foreign interference, no domestic tyranny, and a nonviolent path to democracy.
Four hundred sixteen political and civic activists immediately endorsed his …
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We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic’s authoritarianism and foreign military escalation.
Sina Toossi
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Iranians gather at Palestine Square in Tehran carrying Iranian flags, chanting anti-US and anti-Israel slogans to protest the attacks by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026.
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When the streets of Iran ran red last January, when mothers searched hospital corridors for sons who never came home, when the internet went dark and the state called its own people “rioters,” something remarkable happened.
From prison cells.
From house arrest.
From union organizers and writers’ circles.
From Kurdish towns and Tehran universities.
Iranian civil society spoke.
Current Issue
March 2026 Issue
They condemned the Islamic Republic’s mass killings as crimes. They demanded accountability, freedom, and transformational change. They called for a referendum and a constituent assembly. They rejected clerical authoritarianism.
And they rejected war.
Now that war has been launched—after weeks of US and Israeli officials speaking casually about “bombing” and “military buildup,” and many of the people most battered by the Islamic Republic warning that foreign military intervention would not liberate them. It would bury them.
Mir Hossein Mousavi is not an exile or a fringe dissident. He was Iran’s prime minister during the war with Iraq in the 1980s. He was the leading challenger in the disputed 2009 election that gave birth to the Green Movement. For more than a decade he has been confined to his home, cut off from public life, for demanding accountability and fundamental political change.
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In the aftermath of the January massacre, which left thousands of protesters dead, Mousavi declared that “the game is over.” He called the killings a historic crime. He urged security forces to lay down their arms. And he proposed the formation of what he called an Iran Salvation Front, a broad national coalition to guide a peaceful democratic transition.
His framework rested on three principles: no foreign interference, no domestic tyranny, and a nonviolent path to democracy.
Four hundred sixteen political and civic activists immediately endorsed his …
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We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic’s authoritarianism and foreign military escalation.
Sina Toossi
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Iranians gather at Palestine Square in Tehran carrying Iranian flags, chanting anti-US and anti-Israel slogans to protest the attacks by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026.
(Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images)
When the streets of Iran ran red last January, when mothers searched hospital corridors for sons who never came home, when the internet went dark and the state called its own people “rioters,” something remarkable happened.
From prison cells.
From house arrest.
From union organizers and writers’ circles.
From Kurdish towns and Tehran universities.
Iranian civil society spoke.
Current Issue
March 2026 Issue
They condemned the Islamic Republic’s mass killings as crimes. They demanded accountability, freedom, and transformational change. They called for a referendum and a constituent assembly. They rejected clerical authoritarianism.
And they rejected war.
Now that war has been launched—after weeks of US and Israeli officials speaking casually about “bombing” and “military buildup,” and many of the people most battered by the Islamic Republic warning that foreign military intervention would not liberate them. It would bury them.
Mir Hossein Mousavi is not an exile or a fringe dissident. He was Iran’s prime minister during the war with Iraq in the 1980s. He was the leading challenger in the disputed 2009 election that gave birth to the Green Movement. For more than a decade he has been confined to his home, cut off from public life, for demanding accountability and fundamental political change.
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In the aftermath of the January massacre, which left thousands of protesters dead, Mousavi declared that “the game is over.” He called the killings a historic crime. He urged security forces to lay down their arms. And he proposed the formation of what he called an Iran Salvation Front, a broad national coalition to guide a peaceful democratic transition.
His framework rested on three principles: no foreign interference, no domestic tyranny, and a nonviolent path to democracy.
Four hundred sixteen political and civic activists immediately endorsed his …
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