“They Will Not Be Coming Back”: An Iranian in America Describes a Regime’s War on Its People

Protesters wave the Iranian flag with the Islamic emblem cut out. By راننده از تهران – own work, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Eager to talk about the anti-regime protests, fifty-three-year-old Reza said, “The government doesn’t care.” He escaped Iran 15 years ago and now drives Uber in Washington, D.C., while closely monitoring the ongoing violence and the protesters’ deaths, which have affected him deeply.

“They don’t care about people’s age. Two years old or 100 years old, anyone who comes out to protest...