THE ONENESS of HUMANITYProfessor Seyed Marandi to Americans: “I Hope Sincerely that Cooler Heads Prevail.”
Posted by Jerry Alatalo | April 29, 2026
[Editor’s note: What follows is a partial transcript, followed by the video of Iranian Professor Seyed Marandi’s full powerful, timely public statement. Please share this information far and wide, and, – most especially, if you reside in the United States, share this important information with your fellow Americans. Feel free to share your thoughts and/or responses in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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TRANSCRIPT
I want to say something about the human cost here because I think it is important not to lose sight of this in the geopolitical analysis. Over 3,300 Iranians were killed in this conflict.
Among them were 168 young girls.
Scientists were killed alongside their families. Military commanders were killed alongside their families. The Americans and the Israelis struck civilian infrastructure. They struck populated areas. They used a kind of firepower that is designed to maximize destruction. Now look at the other side.
Iran fired thousands of missiles and drones at the military and energy infrastructure of these Gulf states that facilitated the attacks on Iran. And the total number of civilian casualties in Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar combined is fewer than 20 people. Fewer than 20. You can go and verify this yourself. This is not Iranian television telling you this.
Look it up on any search engine. The disparity in civilian casualties tells you something very important about how these two sides are conducting this conflict. Now, I need to talk about what comes next because this is why this matters to everyone watching this video, not just to people in the region.
Trump has said he may restart military operations within days. His stated intention, if the conflict resumes, is to strike Iranian electrical power generation facilities. I want you to think carefully about what that means. If the Americans strike Iranian power plants, Iran will strike the power plants of the countries that provided their territory and airspace for these attacks.
I am talking about the Gulf States. These are desert countries. They have almost no natural fresh water. They have no agriculture of any significance. Their populations survive because of electricity. Electricity runs their desalination plants. Electricity runs their air conditioning.
In a few weeks, the summer heat in the Persian Gulf will be extreme. We are talking about temperatures that are genuinely life, threatening without climate control. If the power goes out, these countries cannot function. People will have to leave. These states will effectively collapse.
Iran is in a very different situation. Iran has the Albors mountain range running east to west across the north of the country. It has the Zagros mountain range running north to south along the west. Iran has forests. Iran has lakes. Iran has agriculture that covers roughly 90% of domestic food needs. Iran has borders with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, and Iraq. It has access to the Caspian Sea, which connects it to Russia and Central Asia.
[Editor: Alborz Mountains, major mountain range in northern Iran, 560 miles (900 km) long, which serves as a defining landmark both geographically and in Iranian culture. (Britannica.com) The Zagros Mountains are a major mountain range in West Asia, extending approximately 1,600 kilometers across Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey. They are known for their geological significance, rich biodiversity, and as a natural barrier that has historically protected various cultures.(Wikipedia)]
Iran has lived under sanctions for decades. It knows how to survive under pressure. The Gulf States do not have this experience. They cannot survive the same level of disruption. And this brings me back to the fundamental question of who can outlast whom.
This is a war of survival for Iran. Every Iranian understands what is at stake. When your country is under attack, when your people are being killed, when your cities are being bombed, you fight. You endure. You find ways to survive that an outside observer might not expect.
For the United States, this is a war of choice. [Editor: Bold added) A war being fought thousands of miles from American territory for reasons that most ordinary Americans do not fully understand at a cost in weapons and money and international reputation that is already becoming very significant.
Iran has not started a war in over 300 years. Since the revolution, three wars have been imposed on Iran. The 8-year war with Iraq, where Saddam Hussein was encouraged, armed, and financed by the West and by these very same Gulf states.
I personally survived two chemical weapons attacks during that war. Those chemical weapons were supplied by Western companies. They were funded by Gulf money. And then this war, Iran did not start any of these conflicts. But Iran survived all of them. So here’s where we are. Trump has a decision to make within days. He can restart military operations. If he does, the Iranians are ready. They have been preparing since the ceasefire began.
They know that Trump has violated agreements before. They are not going to be caught off guard. The underground bases that were never used during the first round of fighting will begin to be used. Production facilities that have been running throughout the ceasefire will provide a continuous supply of munitions and the straight of hormones will remain closed to the countries that facilitated this war.
Or Trump can honor the ceasefire he agreed to. He can lift the siege. He can give Iran what was promised under the agreement and then genuine negotiations can begin on a comprehensive deal that addresses the nuclear question, addresses regional security and gives everyone an off ramp from a crisis that is already beginning to destabilize the global economy in ways that will affect ordinary people everywhere.
The second option was available to Trump several times already. After the ceasefire, when Iran announced it was opening the Strait, that was his off ramp. He could have said, “I lifted the siege. Iran opened the straight. I won. This is a great deal. The best deal anyone has ever made.” He could have said this and walked away with something he could present as a victory. Instead, he escalated. He maintained the siege. And the crisis deepened.
I am not optimistic that he will make the right choice this time. Not because I think Trump is irrational in the way people sometimes say, but because the people around him are feeding him a version of reality that does not match what is actually on the ground. They told him Iran would collapse under military pressure. It did not. They told him the Iranian military would be quickly degraded. It was not. They are now telling him that a few more days of pressure will bring Iran to the table on American terms. I do not believe this is correct.
The Iranians are not going to negotiate under the threat of renewed bombardment. They are not going to make concessions that compromise their national security and their sovereignty because someone in Washington sets a deadline. This is not how Iran works. This is not how any country with real institutional depth and genuine popular support for its resistance works.
What I hope is that there are people in the American system, in the State Department, perhaps in the military establishment, perhaps even in the White House who understand the real situation on the ground and who are telling the president this path does not lead where you think it leads.
Because the alternative to diplomacy here is not a quick military victory. The alternative is a longer conflict with unpredictable escalation, a global energy crisis that will hit the American economy hard and a strategic realignment in the Persian Gulf that will take a generation to undo.
The world is watching. The people of Iran are watching. The people of the region are watching. And they are all wondering whether the United States is capable of making a rational decision when the pressure is on. I genuinely do not know the answer to that question, but I know that the next few days will tell us a great deal about where this situation is heading.
And I hope sincerely that cooler heads prevail because the alternative is something that nobody who has seen war up close, nobody who has survived a chemical attack, nobody who has watched families buried under rubble, would ever wish for anyone.
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