Iranians are watching you.

Now that the European Union and the United Kingdom are entangled in Iran’s crisis, it is painfully clear: our country is being treated as a strategic playground.

Let’s stop pretending.

When Western officials talk about “stability,” they do not mean freedom. They mean control. They mean containment. They mean shaping outcomes that protect their own interests — energy routes, migration flows, regional leverage — not the birth of a genuinely secular Iranian “republic”.

Millions of Iranians inside Iran and abroad have made it clear they want the return of the Pahlavi monarchy, a symbol of national unity and secular governance. But that choice seems irrelevant to the UN and Europe, whose agendas prioritize control and predictability over the will of the Iranian people.

Now we hear talk of........

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