“If you’re watching this, then I’m not around anymore,” said Pouria Hamidi, an Iranian man from the southern port city of Bushehr, in a video shared by Farsi-language Iran International, appealing to US President Donald Trump and Western countries to halt any kind of agreement with Iran’s ruling establishment.
After sharing the video, Hamidi reportedly took his own life, becoming another victim of the Iranian conflict, which already killed dozens of thousands of people. “More than 40,000 people died, killed, massacred, more than the Russia-Ukraine war, and more than the Israel-Palestine war,” said the Iranian man.
By recording a ten-minute reflection, Hamidi wanted to call Washington’s attention in order to beg the US government not to pursue negotiations with the Islamic Republic, “To make a deal with this regime is to betray all those people who died. So please, I beg you, do whatever you can to stop this deal,” he said.
The Iranian citizen noted that the US President Donald Trump had told the Iranians to “keep protesting, and we did, we trusted him.” Addressing a possible future deal, Hamidi said that to fight people carrying guns is not possible, framing that the Iranian people can’t defeat the Islamic regime.
“The government itself hired terrorist groups, Muslim terrorist groups, to kill people. And we still don’t know what they did with the bodies,” said the Iranian man on his appeal. He intended to explain the current situation of today’s Iranian young generation, noting that the population wants Islam out of the country, “We are running away from it, especially my generation,” he added.
Hamidi noted that the Iranians face a moment of despair, and that the US attack against Iran would be their last hope, “You don’t know how hopeless our people are right now. I mean, I myself, I can’t eat. I can’t sleep,” he added.
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The Iranian young man expressed solidarity for exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, explaining that no one is the same from the Islamic regime, and that Iranians never know who will be taken next, “I mean, I’m so fortunate that they haven’t got me yet, but I guess that’s why I’m doing it myself.”
Hamidi addressed the video as a way to give some meaning to his life before it ended, something that he considered multiple times under the weight of the Islamic regime on his daily life. “I can’t even cry about it because it’s so laughable to be born in a place like this, to have no future. But I hoped the people of my country would finally have a future after all this,” he added.