News Nation – Iran refugees have lost hope in Trump, US after ‘we won’ comment
Iranian refugees expressed despair and frustration to NewsNation as the White House claimed the war with Iran is nearing its end, all while the brutal regime appears to have stayed in power, and there is an uptick in executions of citizens.
Rayan Amiri, the founding leader of the Conservative Party of Iran, told NewsNation he is exhausted by the United States continuing to negotiate with the regime while it “lies” about the decrease in executions of citizens.
“I’m worn down by our so-called friends, those who have abandoned me and the Iranian people, treating us as leverage and pressure tools on the negotiation table with the Islamist regime occupying Iran, rather than human beings fighting for freedom,” Amiri said.
“Trump’s claims about a decrease in executions in Iran have proven false constantly,” he added.
‘I am so hopeless’: Iranian refugee on Trump’s war plan
An Iranian refugee who spoke to NewsNation under a condition of anonymity for their safety shared a similar sentiment.
“I am so hopeless and sad that things seem to be settled between the U.S. and the IRGC without the regime overthrown. People in neighboring countries are saying that Iran won the battle as the regime is doing extensive propaganda saying that the U.S. gave up. That is the most extreme despair I have ever felt in my life,” they said.
Amiri says the regime has ramped up executions yet again. He argues the U.S. is not doing enough to root out the “totalitarian and terrorist regime.”
“(Trump) talks tough, but in reality, he throws lifelines to the very terrorist regime that has destroyed and devastated my beautiful country Iran and created a mess in the Middle East. It’s gaslighting, empty words, doublespeak and betrayal,” Amiri said.
The U.S-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported this month, “Executions of prisoners on political and security-related charges have increased alongside the outbreak of military conflict in Iran.”
The human rights organization provided a comprehensive list of individuals who are set to be executed, one of whom is a woman, Bita Hemmati, whom Trump claimed he saved from being executed.
NewsNation has been unable to independently verify Hemmati’s status.
Trump says US has ‘won’ war in Iran
The White House believes it is close to reaching an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum to end the war.
On Wednesday, Trump claimed the U.S. had “won” the war.
“They had an Air Force, lots of planes, and they don’t have any planes. They don’t have any anti-aircraft. They don’t have any radar left. Their missiles are mostly decimated. They have some. Probably 18-19%, but not a lot by comparison to what they had. And their leaders are all dead. So I think we won,” the president said.
He added that the U.S. continued to have “very good talks” with Iranian officials and said the people of Iran “have great pride.”
“If we left right now, in Iran, it would take them 20 years to rebuild,” Trump said.
Amiri said he has lost trust in Trump to help the Iranian people under the regime’s control.
“Instead of talking about erasing power plants and civil infrastructure in Iran that will affect the Iranian people, he must erase all of the regime’s military infrastructure, including the entire crackdown apparatus of the regime, in a meaningful way, paving the way for the Iranian people to liberate themselves and leveling the playing field for them to take back their country. Words mean nothing without action,” Amiri said.
Mike Nelson, a retired Special Forces lieutenant colonel with extensive experience at U.S. Central Command, told NewsNation on Wednesday that the administration’s objective has been difficult to define due to shifting rhetoric.
“It’s been hard to nail down the administration as to what they think they are actually trying to accomplish in the war with Iran because the rhetoric shifts so frequently,” he said. “But none of the various strategic goals they have mentioned at any time have been accomplished.”
Nelson detailed that the Iranian people are still under the control of the regime.
“The Iranian people are still oppressed, the regime that came to power in 1979 is still in charge, Iran is still tied to their regional and terror proxies, the highly enriched uranium is still in Iranian hands, and Iran has demonstrated what a threat they are to the region and the world,” he said.
NewsNation informed the White House of the refugees’ concerns over the lack of regime change, executions, and inquired about the status of Hemmati, awaiting execution.
White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told NewsNation, “These are horrific tragedies perpetrated by the Iranian terrorist regime. President Trump will never allow Iran – a nation that brutally kills its own people for merely speaking out against the regime’s oppression, chants ‘Death to America’, and is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror – to obtain a nuclear weapon.”
Iran remains under internet blackout
The war-torn nation has been under an internet blackout controlled by the regime.
NetBlocks reported that the internet shutdown has reached its 69th day, making the flow of information into and out of the country nearly impossible.
Elon Musk’s Starlink was positioned to help provide access for some people in the country, but Amiri says it never reached those who needed it.
“Trump said he gave Starlink and arms to the people. What did he mean by people? Bunch of ethnocentric separatists in some mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan? How is that helping the Iranian people? Those help packages never reached the people. Only the anti-Iranian bad actors,” he said.
Iran’s judiciary chief has asked for hastening the process of executions, NewsNation reported in April.
In a video posted by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i said, “In cases where issuing rulings such as asset confiscation and the death penalty is warranted for enemy agents, the process should be expedited.”
Iranian sources told NewsNation in February that many protesters who have been captured by the regime’s police forces are being brutally tortured and raped in prison before being executed.
Amiri, a political activist, spoke with NewsNation last month about being targeted by the regime and their attempts to abduct him and potentially assassinate him for his antiregime beliefs.
He said at the time that he was receiving “obvious and direct threats of assassination and intimidation” from IRGC associates.
Amiri detailed he was approached under false pretenses: “under the guise of our allies, faking it as being from the side of our American and Israeli allies” and “asking for in-person meetings.”
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