Iran's Revolutionary Guard urges Americans to press for policy change
IRGC spokesman Gen. Hossein Mohebbi told a Tehran news conference that Americans should demand an end to what he called aggressive US policies.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used a Tehran news conference on Tuesday to address the American public directly, with its spokesman urging US citizens to press their leaders to abandon what he described as a policy of killing, aggression and plunder.
Gen. Hossein Mohebbi, the IRGC spokesperson, framed the event as "A letter to the American people." He questioned whether Americans were fully aware of the consequences of US military support for Israel, saying schools, hospitals, universities, research centres, mosques and churches had been bombed and devastated.
"Hasn't the time come for the U.S. leadership to change its policies?" Mohebbi asked, adding that Americans should demand their leaders end those policies.
He said the only path to ending the war was for Washington to admit defeat and withdraw — remarks that come weeks before US midterm elections for the Senate and Congress on Nov. 3.
In later comments, Mohebbi called on Americans to take to the streets and protest President Trump's policies.
On Iran's nuclear programme, the general rejected US concerns as a pretext. "Their issue is not nuclear weapons," he said, accusing Washington of seeking to plunder Iran's wealth, break up the country and turn it back into a colony. He maintained that Iran has not been pursuing nuclear weapons.
Mohebbi also said Iran would keep strengthening its defences, describing continuous work on new weapons, upgrades to existing systems and expanded mass production, along with the use of technologies from around the world.
The economic pressure was visible in Tehran's markets the same day, as Iran's currency fell to a fresh record low, with traders exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the US dollar — a sign of how the conflict has further eroded the country's economy.