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That’s why I can imagine an Iran that exports engineers instead of extremists.
Startups instead of suicide bombers.
Energy instead of hatred...
I can imagine a Middle East where Iran is no longer a source of chaos… but an anchor of stability.
An Iran that does not fear its people, doesn’t threaten its neighbors, doesn’t isolate itself from the world.
Imagining this is not difficult, because this is exactly what Iran once was. And what it can be again.
When Iran is free, the Middle East changes.
When Iran is free, America regains a great friend.
A free Iran represents the single largest untapped economic opportunity of the 21st century.
A nation of 93 million people—highly educated, entrepreneurial, and pro-West—finally unleashed.
Over the next decade alone, a strategic U.S.–Iran partnership could generate more than $1 trillion for the American economy.
Imagine a new Middle East where Iran is a friend of Israel. Where the Abraham Accords are extended into the Cyrus Accords, named for Cyrus the Great, the Iranian king who issued the first charter of human rights, and whose vision of religious tolerance inspired Thomas Jefferson.
Today the Islamic Republic tramples upon Iran’s millennia-old legacy of tolerance for religious minorities, and wages a war on them. In a country with the fastest rate of growth of Christianity in the world, the regime and its IRGC storm into and ransack underground house churches, detain and torture pastors, and persecute and execute evangelists and Christian converts. This is the Islamic Republic. Not the true Iran. Not the vision we have for the future.
Under this vision, Iran, the United States, Israel, and our Arab neighbors are bound together in peace and prosperity rather than conflict and terror.
A Middle East where we will be able to handle our own affairs and manage our own backyard– where we can put an end to the endless wars and allow our American friends to bring back their sons and daughters in uniform and focus where they want to: back home.
A free Iran is not a fantasy.