{"id":67413,"date":"2026-04-14T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/67413\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:05:09","slug":"opinion-i-am-iranian-american-i-hate-war-i-want-iran-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/67413\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | I am Iranian American. I hate war. I want Iran to be free."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"THGAECKB7BETDB6FR7WW7J4V3A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">I speak English and Farsi fluently, yet I have struggled to find the language to convey the weight of the emotions I have carried in recent months.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"G2DR22CNSFGH3CHZMARVCSTEVI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When initial reports emerged that the United States had struck Iran at the core of the Islamic Republic\u2019s power, many of us in the Iranian diaspora felt something unexpected. Relief. Even hope. After 47 years of repression sustained by fear, censorship and violence, the possibility that this system would finally fall felt unreal. For a brief moment, Iranians allowed themselves to imagine a future shaped by possibility rather than survival. That hope did not survive the reality of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I speak English and Farsi fluently, yet I have struggled to find the language to convey the weight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,18631,888],"class_list":["post-67413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-iran","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-partner-exclude"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116405333632626095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}