Iranian dissident’s final plea to Donald Trump before death

“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.

After sharing the video, Hamidi reportedly took his own life, according to the Iranian opposition news outlet. “More than 40,000 people died, killed, massacred, more than the Russia-Ukraine war, and more than the Israel-Palestine war,” he said during the video.

In the ten-minute video, which was recorded in English, he said, “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.”

Hamidi 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,” he explained. He also described the current generation’s relation with Islam, claiming that Iranians want it out of the country, “We are running away from it, especially my generation,” he added.

He also mentioned Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, calling him “the best choice to make a transitional government.” He mentioned that there were several opposition groups outside Iran and asked them to “come together and stop fighting each other.”

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.

“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 said.