Iranians speak out over possible Trump-regime deal

Amid President Donald Trump’s Monday announcement that a woody pinch Iran’s clerical authorities is imminent to re-open nan Strait of Hormuz and discuss an extremity to Tehran’s illicit atomic weapons program, Iranians who hoped U.S. unit would unit a decisive result now fearfulness it whitethorn past while mean group sorb nan costs.

"Inside Iran, nan temper has shifted from early-war optimism to a benignant of exhausted resignation, but location is still immoderate dream that this is nan infinitesimal President Trump will usage his leverage to do nan correct thing. The Iranian group understand this unusually constrictive but strategical window," Lisa Dafari, editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk who keeps successful interaction pinch Iranians connected nan ground, told Fox News Digital.

She continued that ,"The authorities is fiscally strained and politically brittle, while nan broader organization has been disillusioned by years of repression and economical collapse. Iranians do spot this arsenic a one‑time opportunity for Washington — and President Trump successful peculiar — to construe subject and economical leverage into nan imaginable illness of an irrefromable regime. If nan result is simply a shallow statement that props up nan strategy without changing its trajectory, that model will apt adjacent for years."

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An Iranian emblem is placed amid rubble adjacent to a destroyed residential building adjacent Ferdowsi Square successful Tehran connected March 3, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

She continued, "If instead, nan U.S. holds patient connected sanctions and atomic reddish lines, it tin weaken nan regime’s manus without punishing nan Iranian people, who person already paid nan highest price."

Daftari, nan Iran expert, shared caller correspondence from 2 Iranians from Tabriz and Tehran.

The resident from Tabriz said, "From my perspective, decades of governmental hostility betwixt Iran and nan United States person had their top effect connected mean group alternatively than those successful power. Many families consciousness their voices are not being heard successful world discussions astir Iran." Adding, "I respectfully inquire whether you mightiness see sharing aliases highlighting nan quality broadside of this situation, truthful that nan experiences of mean Iranian families are not overlooked successful governmental discussions and media coverage."

The Tehran resident said, "Today, nan group of Iran judge successful nan future. On days erstwhile economic unit makes nan faces of nan Iranian group sad, nan connection ‘unity’ brings a grin to their lips. Our business is not good, but we are motivated."

Fox News Digital surveyed a fewer Iranians and agreed to usage only their first names because nan clerical authorities has declared nan usage of Starlink to bypass nan censor a criminal act. A blase clandestine web has managed to smuggle immoderate outer net exertion into Iran to let group to pass pinch nan world extracurricular nan Islamist state.

Two equipped members of Iran's constabulary typical forces guidelines down a state emblem placed connected an armored subject conveyance during a pro-Government rally successful downtown Tehran, Iran. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Hassan, who lives successful Tehran, pleaded pinch President Trump to support beardown successful his dealings pinch nan regime, saying that "Things person gotten truthful bad that moreover if you wanted to springiness up and time off Iran and conscionable attraction connected your ain life and work, it feels for illustration there’s obscurity near to turn. Mr. Trump, done these deals and arrangements, has near group emotion trapped, pinch nary roadworthy near open."

Mehdi, who resides successful Tehran, expressed disorder astir nan beingness of an agreement. He said, "So what precisely are they agreeing on? Are they saying they’re adjacent to a woody aliases are location different discussions too? Every infinitesimal location is simply a caller portion of news, everyone has a caller analysis, everything changes each minute. It’s strange. This warfare achieved nothing. We’re nan only ones near paying nan price," he complained.

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Hassan from Tehran said that "Mr. Trump, if until yesterday astir Iranians thought they were connected nan aforesaid way arsenic America, you caused them each to go disappointed. "Mr. Trump, if you wanted this authorities to stay successful power, why did you rustle up factories? Now workers are being laid off, and inflation is retired of control. Even pinch a net of 18 cardinal tomans, you cannot provender yourself."

Mahsa, from nan Caspian Sea metropolis of Rasht, told Fox News Digital that the strategy [Islamic Republic of Iran] is still afloat intact. They don’t attraction really galore group died. If anything, they look much emboldened now and moreover return pridefulness successful martyrdom. Yesterday I based on pinch a authorities protagonist [who] said: "Our leader didn’t springiness distant a azygous metre of land, didn’t return a measurement backward, dissimilar erstwhile kings who gave distant Bahrain, Baku, Nakhchivan, and others."

Protesters artifact a thoroughfare arsenic a crowd gathers during a objection successful Tehran, Iran, connected Jan. 9, 2026. (Mahsa/Middle East Images/AFP)

The concerns among galore Iranians revolve astir nan projected memorandum of knowing betwixt the U.S. and Iran’s regime. The MOU does not reside nan overthrow of nan clerical authorities aliases quality authorities violations, according to media reports.  Large numbers of Iranians wrong Iran and among nan Iranian diaspora want nan Trump management to topple nan Islamist dictatorship successful Tehran.

The MOU reportedly involves a 60-day ceasefire extension. Israel and nan U.S. launched a associated onslaught connected Iran connected February 28. The MOU would besides spot nan reopening nan Strait of Hormuz and caller talks complete Iran's illicit atomic weapons program.

The leaked elements of nan MOU person not been confirmed by nan Trump administration.

When asked astir nan interest among Iranians astir a woody pinch nan Islamic Republic, Anna Kelly, a spokeswoman for nan White House, told Fox News Digital that "For 47 years, American Presidents and countless different world leaders talked astir nan threat posed by Iran, but nary 1 had nan courageousness to reside it. President Trump took decisive action to guarantee that Iran could ne'er harm our homeland, our troops, aliases our friends again. Once Iran’s atomic threat is removed for good, nan full region and its group will beryllium safer and much stable."

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Protesters march successful downtown Tehran, Iran, connected Dec. 29, 2025. (Fars News Agency/AP)

However, Trump said past week during his cabinet meeting, "We didn’t group retired for authorities change," adding, "But by nan truth that we’re dealing pinch a wholly different group of group than we were astatine nan opening … This is authorities change."

Reza Farnood, an Iranian American who supports nan Trump management and is simply a researcher, writer and activist, urged that President Trump proceed pinch his maximum unit run against Tehran.

Farnood told Fox News Digital, "We invited nan bombing and attacking nan authorities because we are aiming to overthrow nan regime." He urged that Trump proceed nan blockade of Iran’s vessels and contradict money to nan regime. He said sanctions alleviation will beryllium utilized by Iran "against nan U.S. and Israel and their friends and guiltless Iranians."

Farnood stressed that nan clerical authorities is holding nan Iranian group "hostage."

Kianoosh, who lives successful nan bluish metropolis of Karaj, nan superior of  Alborz province, said astir Trump’s projected deal: "You threw six months of our lives into hell. What reply are "you going to springiness to nan mothers of each those children who were killed? Why did you springiness group mendacious hope? Why did you manus down a decease condemnation to everything truthful galore group believed in?"

Leading U.S. Senators well-versed successful overseas argumentation person praised Trump’s attack to nan Islamic Republic. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC., precocious told Fox News’ Sean Hannity "On Trump’s watch, they’re [Iran’s regime] becoming poorer and weaker. That’s nan difference."

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Graham juxtaposed Trump’s Iran argumentation pinch his predecessors. "Obama and Biden screwed Iran up, and Donald Trump is fixing it. On Obama and Biden’s watch, Iran became rich | and lethal," he said. "On Trump’s watch, they’re becoming poorer and weaker. That’s nan difference."

Iran is moving dangerously debased connected lipid retention capacity and could look a terrible economical breaking constituent if forced to halt production, erstwhile U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette precocious told Fox News.

Trump has said that Iran’s authorities murdered arsenic galore arsenic 45,000 Iranian demonstrators successful January 2026. He urged conscionable days aft nan wide execution that protesters support going and promised them that "help is connected its way."

Lawdan Bazargan, a salient Iranian-American activistic who nan authorities imprisoned successful its infamous Evin Prison successful Tehran successful nan 1980s for governmental dissent, told Fox News Digital that nan Iranians she’s spoken pinch are discouraged by Trump’s dealings. "He was 1 of nan fewer world leaders who many times said astir nan thousands of Iranians killed successful January 2026 and expressed disgust astatine nan sheer brutality of nan Islamic Republic. He had promised support for nan Iranian group and raised expectations that meaningful alteration mightiness yet come."

Iranians be an anti-government protestation successful Tehran, Iran, connected Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)

She continued: "Now, 88 days later, galore group consciousness they are left facing nan aforesaid regime, 1 that appears much emboldened, much ideological, and still consenting to repress, execute, and apprehension people. The system has been devastated, and galore consciousness trapped betwixt a authorities pinch nary mercy and a early pinch nary clear way forward.

For years, 90 cardinal Iranians person lived arsenic hostages of nan Islamic Republic. Now, galore fearfulness that nan consequences nary longer extremity astatine Iran’s borders, done threats to world power routes, location stability, and moreover integer infrastructure."

According to Bazargan, "The mobility galore mean Iranians are asking is simple: How are group expected to conflict a strategy that feels victorious, controls nan weapons, controls nan communicative done a monolithic propaganda machine, and possesses countless devices of repression?"

A advertisement successful Tehran displays Iran's ultimate leaders since 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who was appointed ultimate leader connected March 9, 2026. (AFP/Via Getty Images)

Ali, who is besides from nan sprawling superior metropolis of Tehran, complained astir nan spiraling prices and ostentation and disappointment that nan authorities is still successful place.

"For a authorities pinch state-provided lodging and billions successful patronage and privileges, what quality did immoderate of this make for its supporters?"

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Ali added: "We’re nan ones who are paying nan value and getting crushed. How are our children ever expected to spend these lodging and car prices, and really are they expected to get married?"

The U.S. State Department referred Fox News Digital to nan White House for a comment.