Steven Potter:
What are your thoughts about the anti-war protests here in the United States, and those who think that America should not be waging this war?
Zara Fakhri:
It’s really important for everyone to know a people, and talk to the people, and understand those people from their shoes. What I really want them — if they are looking for something good for my people, it’s the best-case scenario — to ask my people: What is their thoughts? No one says a war is good. No one says that I want missiles to come to my country. Even if I said that there are IRGC centers, they are buildings that they were built in my city, in my country. They are precious, not only for me, but also for my people. But if it could help my people to live better life — OK, even now thinking about the better life — if they can be safe for the next years or in the future, I would like that to happen, and also something helpful for other nations, too. They have to know what are we fighting with. So if there is any other options for them, let us know, because we could not find any other solution for our people, for our country, for the safety of the Middle East. Now they can see how the IRGC is reacting. They’re bombarding Dubai Emirates. It was so surprising for even Iranians that we are, we can’t expect anything from IRGC. There is nothing that you can tell me. And I said that now there is a limit for IRGC — there is no limit for them. There is no limit even for killing Iranian people, for human shields. There is no limit for them. So, what we are seeing is a true face of IRGC — please see that. And please talk to Iranians. We Iranians — who have our families, our beloved ones inside Iran — we would definitely know something that you might not feel it, and all the scenarios are not as easy as you might think written on the paper. Everything might be complex and more complicated. So we are thinking that this regime is more horrifying and more scary than IRGC to stay in our country. That’s what we think.