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Letters | Iran’s people deserve stability, dignity and peace

Readers discuss the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, US-Philippine military cooperation, and American criticism of a key Chinese trade negotiator

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People watch as smoke rises on the skyline after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on February 28. Photo: AP
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Over the last two days, I have watched the United States, the country I call home, strike Iran, the country where I was born and raised, at the behest and with the support of Israel.

I left for high school in New York in August 1978 as the revolution gathered force. I thought I would return, but instead, decades passed as I remained in the US, and visited only in 1983, 1993 and 2023.

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The state has monitored daily life closely since the creation of the Iranian secret police and intelligence service, SAVAK, in 1957, with the help of the CIA and Israeli Mossad. More recently, citizens have not been able to purchase a SIM card without a national identification card: financial transactions, medical care, travel and all required documentation. The system left little room for anonymity.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shaped Iran’s direction for decades. His government suppressed dissent. Many Iranians paid a high price. Few will separate their grief from their judgment.
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Now the question is simple: what comes next?

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