February 14 March For Iran Across The World
The Iran Solution: Dialogue, Dialogue, and More Dialogue — But First, the Diaspora Must Face the Truth
The path to resolving the Iran crisis is not bombs. It is not sanctions alone. It is not another round of half-hearted negotiations that go nowhere. The only viable solution is dialogue — relentless, prolific, multi-track dialogue at every level. Every nation that can open a channel to Tehran must do so. Compare notes. Separate the unapologetic regime ideologues from the technocrats who might one day help manage a transition. The United States and Iran must talk — repeatedly, in multiple locations, over weeks. Even when the agenda is a mess. Even when Tehran’s opening position is outrageous. The world must see that the effort was made.
But let’s be brutally honest about what those talks are missing.
The Iranian people are not even on the agenda. Or if they are, they are buried at the bottom, an afterthought. That is backwards. A regime must answer to its own citizens. That should be item number one. And the only force capable of forcing it there is the Iranian diaspora — millions of Persians scattered across free societies where they can actually speak and assemble without fear of the noose.
Iran is a nation that was hijacked fourteen centuries ago and remains in chains today. Islam did not arrive in Persia through gentle persuasion. It arrived with the sword: convert or die. It has been sustained by the same logic ever since: obey or die. When young Iranians pour into the streets chanting for freedom, they are not “protesting policy.” They are rejecting the faith that has been welded to the state. The regime’s response is the same as it has always been: if you are not Muslim in the way we define it, you are worthy of death.
That same medieval logic now threatens the entire region. Tehran’s public goal is the destruction of Israel, but the rhetoric and the missiles are not reserved for Jews. The message to the Gulf states — to Dubai, to Doha, to Riyadh — is identical: get in line or we will turn your downtowns into parking lots. The same ultimatum once issued to Persian villagers in the seventh century is now issued to Arab capitals in the twenty-first: submit or burn. Palestinians are given no choice except permanent war; Iran’s “solution” is a single state soaked in Jewish blood.
The Supreme Leader cannot grant liberty. He does not possess it himself. He is a slave to the very ideology he enforces. He imposes tyranny because he lives under it. You cannot petition a man in spiritual bondage for the keys to freedom.
This is the conversation the Iranian diaspora refuses to have in full. They march, they tweet, they raise money, they plead with Western governments. Yet the one unavoidable, explosive dialogue — the one about Islam itself — remains largely off-limits. Too many still treat the regime as a political aberration that can be reformed, rather than the inevitable political expression of a faith whose foundational logic is submission or death.
Islam is not a cousin of Judaism and Christianity. It is an anti-religion — a deliberate distortion. Allah is not the God of Abraham. The God of the Bible enters history, redeems, loves, liberates. Allah demands obedience, threatens, and stays distant. There is no record of Muhammad prophesying in the manner of the Hebrew prophets. There is conquest, there is dictation, there is empire. The diaspora must confront this reality head-on: the bond that holds Iran captive is not merely political; it is spiritual. Each Iranian has the personal power to break it.
The Ayatollah cannot add human rights, free speech, or liberty to any negotiation because he does not own those things. He is not their custodian; he is their enemy. The only people who can put the Iranian people at the center of the agenda are Iranians themselves — especially those living in freedom.
The diaspora is not doing enough. Petitions to the regime are a fool’s errand. Appeals to the conscience of men who believe dissent equals apostasy are pointless. The real work is internal, uncomfortable, and urgent: a sustained, public conversation among Persians worldwide about the nature of the faith that has ruled them for 1,400 years.
Dialogue with Tehran? Yes — keep the channels open, expose every evasion, document every lie. But the decisive dialogue is the one Iranians must have with each other, in London, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Berlin. Until they are willing to name the root — the theological stranglehold that turns protest into blasphemy and disagreement into treason — the regime will survive every sanction, every round of talks, and every missile exchange.
The Persian people are ancient, proud, and capable of greatness. They deserve better than to be ruled by men who mistake the voice of the Devil for the voice of God. The diaspora holds the microphone. It is time to use it.
