Why Regime Change Is the Only Solution and Why the U.S. Must Make No Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran

There is no deal to be made with a regime that survives by killing its own people. For 47 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has proven again and again that it is not a government capable of reform, negotiation, or good faith. It is a system built on repression, sustained through violence, and preserved by lies. Any agreement with it does not prevent atrocities. It finances and legitimizes them.

Over the past few weeks alone, records and testimonies point to an unprecedented massacre. 40,000 people were killed in 72 hours. This did not happen in a war zone. It happened in cities, streets, homes, and hospitals. Security forces raided hospitals, dragged injured protesters from their beds, and executed them, many shot in the head. Doctors and nurses were threatened or detained for providing care. Bodies were placed in bags, loaded onto trucks, and transported in secrecy to erase evidence. Families were left without answers, without bodies, without the right to mourn.

This is not an internal matter. This is not a complex situation. These are grave violations of international law, and they are the continuation of a 47 year pattern.

For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic has carried out killings of civilians, used torture, rape, and forced confessions as tools of governance, conducted mass arbitrary arrests and sham trials with no due process, and enforced disappearances that leave families with no bodies, no answers, no justice. It has violated medical neutrality by attacking hospitals and criminalizing care, imposed gender persecution by policing women’s bodies through violence and imprisonment, and practiced hostage diplomacy by abducting foreign and dual nationals to extract concessions. It has repeatedly lied, obstructed, and manipulated international accountability mechanisms whenever scrutiny intensified.

These are not isolated abuses. They are not mistakes. They are policy.

Every time the international community has chosen engagement over accountability, the regime has interpreted it as permission. Sanctions relief has not led to moderation. It has strengthened the security apparatus that shoots protesters, raids hospitals, and disappears bodies. Deals have not saved lives. They have bought the regime time, money, and legitimacy while the killing continued.

The idea that the Islamic Republic can be negotiated into compliance ignores reality. This system was never built to listen. It was built to silence. Power sits in the hands of unelected men who rule through fear. And when people rise up, the regime does not bend or negotiate. It kills.

The United States should make no deal with a government that executes the wounded, hunts protesters in hospitals, and dumps bodies in trucks. Any agreement made under these conditions is not diplomacy. It is complicity.

History will not ask whether negotiations were convenient.
It will ask who knew and still chose to shake hands.