JERUSALEM, Israel – The people of the Middle East are waiting to see when and how President Trump will address Iran’s nearly three-week rebellion against the Islamic regime. The U.S. is sending an armada, which is now on its way to the region.
Even with reports that the death toll is up to 30,000, Iranian-born activist Amir Hamidi tells CBN News that the uprising continues and springs from the heart of the Iranian people.
“From Azerbaijan to Baluchistan to Kurdistan to the southern parts of Iran, from Tehran to Tabriz to Mashhad, I hear one voice, and they want a regime change,” Hamidi reported. “They want freedom. They want a normal life. And if they are afraid, they are intimidated because (of) government, forces. They’re shooting their children, and (security forces are) not giving their bodies (back) until they pay for the body to take him and bury him.”
Hamidi says the regime has enlisted foreign mercenaries, who are often high on the drug Captagon, to break the rebellion.
“There are growing allegations that Tehran is leaning on Allied militia from Iraq,” Hamidi stated. “Castro, Chavez, and Fatima, your and other proxy networks to, intimidate, attack, and attack Iran is because some elements of its own forces are hesitating, fracturing, and refusing to fire on their own people.”
We asked Hamidi if he was suggesting that some in the military are refusing to fire on the protesters.
He replied, “That’s what I’m hearing, because they are falling apart inside their military forces, because they see their own family in the street. They say they’re seeing their friends and their neighbors on the streets. And then, my understanding, some of them are hesitant to fire back on the people.”
One Iranian woman whose father is part of the regime risked her life by calling into a talk show.
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