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- Exiled Iranian warns regime was ‘aggressively patient threat waiting to pounce’ on America (foxnews.com)
Iranian Exile Warns Against “Dangerous Narrative” Amidst Anti-War Protests
Across the United States, anti-war activists have voiced their condemnation of recent military strikes targeting the Iranian regime. However, one prominent Iranian exile is challenging this narrative, urging Americans to reconsider what she describes as a “dangerous” viewpoint.
Following the breakdown of nuclear negotiations with Tehran, the U.S. and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury,” a military campaign justified by President Donald Trump. While many critics have labeled the mission a “war of choice,” Iranian American scholar Nazee Moinian contends that these strikes were, in fact, an act of self-defense.
“I want the American people to understand that if it was not an imminent threat, it was a solidly, aggressively patient threat waiting to pounce at any moment to do great damage to American interests,” Moinian stated during an appearance on “The Fox News Rundown” podcast.
Hours after the initial strikes on Iran, demonstrations erupted in cities nationwide, including Times Square and outside the White House, protesting the military action.
Moinian, an associate fellow at the Middle East Institute who fled Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, strongly criticized media outlets for framing the conflict as merely “another endless war.”
“They framed that as a war of choice. It is a war choice, but whose choice?
It’s not our choice. Iran was given so many exit ramps,” Moinian explained to Fox News Radio’s Tonya J.
Powers.
She highlighted a history of forceful suppression by Iranian authorities against major protest movements in 1999, 2009, and 2022.
“They took to the street in 1999. It was a student riot.
They were shot in [the] thousands. And some of the bodies never were recovered,” Moinian recounted.
“If they were recovered, the Islamic regime would ask the parents of the students for the cost of the bullets that they killed their children with. That’s how heinous and brutal that regime was in 1999.”
Moinian also cautioned that the Iranian threat extends beyond its borders, asserting that the regime’s ideology has already infiltrated America through “porous” borders and cyberspace.
“We may not have liked to go to war with them, but they were very willing and gradually very capable to do great damage to us,” she emphasized, concluding, “This is a justified war to safeguard the American people.”
During the military operation, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with several other key figures, was killed. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has since been named as his successor. President Trump expressed his disappointment with this appointment, telling Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst, “I don’t believe he can live in peace.”