WHERE PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN'S LETTER STANDS BEFORE COVENANT LAW

The Tanakh does not hold entire peoples responsible for the actions of rulers. Yahweh spoke through Yechezkel (Ezekiel) with unmistakable clarity: The soul that sins — it shall die. A son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall a father bear the iniquity of the son. No covenant witness can support the collective punishment of the Iranian people for the policies of their government.

For the current conflict — which opened on February 28, 2026, with strikes launched by the United States and Israel — the documented sequence corroborates Iran's claim of not initiating this war. That sequence matters before Yahweh's covenant court.

The president traces the roots of the conflict to the 1953 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and disrupted Iran's democratic process. He is correct. Covenant law requires the acknowledgment of historical wrong.

"They have healed the wound of My people lightly, saying Peace, peace — when there is no peace."

— Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 6:14

THE COVENANT PRECEDENT OF KORESH THE PERSIAN

No nation in the Tanakh — outside the covenant people of Yisra'el themselves — is more honored by Yahweh than Persia. The Tanakh does not merely tolerate Persia. It names a Persian king as Yahweh's anointed. Koresh — Cyrus the Great of Persia — is the only Gentile, the only non-Hebrew ruler in all of the Tanakh to be given the title mashiach: anointed one.

"Thus says Yahweh to His anointed, to Koresh (Cyrus) — whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him and to loose the loins of kings, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut."

— Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 44:28-45:1

THE DOCUMENTED RECORD OF ALL THREE NATIONS

This assembly does not speak from a throne of innocence on behalf of any government. The covenant law of Yahweh requires that witnesses be presented completely and evenhandedly. Every claim below is corroborated by two or more independent sources under the witness standard of Devarim 19:15.

Iran's record includes: the 1979 Hostage Crisis (444 days), the 1983 Beirut Bombings (241 American military personnel killed), four decades of proxy warfare through Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Shi'a militias, and the October 7, 2023 infrastructure of terror.

The United States' record includes: Operation Ajax (1953 coup), support for the Shah (1953-1979), Iran Air Flight 655 (290 civilians killed, 1988), the assassination of General Soleimani (2020), and the February 28, 2026 opening strike without a covenant-required offer of peace first.

Israel's record includes: assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists on Iranian soil, the Stuxnet cyberattack (2010), the Damascus Consulate Strike (April 1, 2024), Operation Rising Lion (June 13, 2025), and the 2026 Lebanon War displacing over one million people.

The Asha/Druj framework of ancient Persia and the covenant law of Yahweh deliver the same verdict on all three parties: all three nations have violated the covenant standard. All three are called to return to the ancient path.

IRAN'S OWN ANCIENT HERITAGE CALLS FOR PEACE

The Gathas of Zarathustra — composed approximately 1500-1000 BCE, predating Islam in Iran by more than two thousand years — are the foundational sacred texts of ancient Persia. The Zoroastrian Creed — Yasna 12 — explicitly pledges: I pledge myself to the Mazdayasnian religion, which causes the attack to be put off and weapons put down.

The Ahunavaiti Gatha declares directly: Violence must be put down! Against cruelty make a stand. This is not modern commentary. It is Persia's founding religious creed. President Pezeshkian — this is your heritage speaking, not a foreign imposition.

THE COVENANT PATH TO PEACE — THREE REQUIREMENTS

"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it — and you will find rest for your souls."

— Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 6:16

• Immediate cessation of all offensive military operations — the attack must be put off, weapons must be put down, now
• Covenant-level acknowledgment of historical wrong — by all three parties (USA: 1953 and subsequent interventions; Iran: 1979 hostage crisis, Beirut bombings, proxy warfare; Israel: Gaza civilian catastrophe, assassinations, displacement of one million Lebanese people)
• Covenant-grounded negotiation — based on the wellbeing of peoples, not the interests of governments, grounded in the principle of shalom — wholeness, mutual security, and the flourishing of every people under their own vine and fig tree

A COVENANT WITNESS TO THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS

In Response to the IRGC's Open Letter to the People of the United States — September 29, 2026

Six months after President Pezeshkian wrote to the American people, Iran's Revolutionary Guards have written to us too. On September 29, 2026, their spokesman, Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi, released an open letter to the honorable people of the United States — the scholars, the students, and the media persons. It declares Iran the victor in a war now seven months old. It says Death to America is a prayer against rulers, not people, and denies that the Guards have ever harmed civilians. It urges Americans to vote out their government and to demand that the occupiers of Palestine return to their countries of origin.

The Guards quoted the prophet Jeremiah. So we answer from the prophets.

THE STANDARD HAS NOT CHANGED

In April we told President Pezeshkian that the covenant of Yahweh does not fly any flag and does not excuse any nation, including the one my father died serving. That is still the standard. The prophet Amos judged Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, and Moab for how they made war on the defenseless. Then he turned to Israel: You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities (Amos 3:2). Every nation is judged by one measure, and no nation is judged on its own testimony: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established (Deuteronomy 19:15).

WHAT THE GUARDS' LETTER GETS RIGHT

Truth does not become false because an adversary says it. A United States missile struck the elementary school in Minab on the first day of the war. Independent counts put the dead at about 156, among them some 120 children and 26 teachers. On September 18, a United Nations fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds to call it a possible war crime. Washington has not released its own investigation. The Torah requires a public accounting for innocent blood even when the killer is unknown (Deuteronomy 21:1-9); here the killer is known. The 1953 coup and the 290 dead of Iran Air Flight 655 are also true. As we said in April, both have never been confessed.

WHAT THE GUARDS' LETTER LEAVES OUT

The letter says there is not a single verifiable instance of the IRGC harming civilians. The record says otherwise.

In January 2020 the Guards shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 over Tehran, killing all 176 aboard. Iran itself admitted this three days later. In January 2026, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International documented the IRGC and Basij firing machine guns into crowds of protesters. Iran's own government counts 3,117 dead, and independent monitors count far more. In this war, Iranian missiles have killed civilians in Israel and across the Gulf.

A letter that mourns the children of Minab while denying the protesters of January is weighing blood on two scales: Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh (Proverbs 20:10).

The Guards' victory boasts rest on their word alone, and so do Washington's. Let not him who girds on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off (1 Kings 20:11).

The covenant does not pray for anyone's death, even a wicked ruler's: I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live (Ezekiel 33:11). When Nineveh, the superpower of its day, turned from the violence that is in their hands, Elohim relented (Jonah 3:8-10).

We have not been silent about the Israeli government's conduct in Gaza and Lebanon, and that charge stands. But the Tanakh's answer to dispossession is not a second dispossession. It writes the stranger into the inheritance (Ezekiel 47:22) and seats every family under its own vine and fig tree, and none shall make them afraid (Micah 4:4).

THE COVENANT WORD TO EACH PARTY

"Cease from anger, and forsake wrath... But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."

— Psalms 37:8, 11 — The Written Covenant of Yahweh

• To the Revolutionary Guards: You invited Americans to come to Iran and see the truth. Then open the door to it. Admit independent investigators and journalists, restore your people's internet, and free those jailed for protesting. Give the families of January and of Flight 752 the accounting you rightly demand for Minab.
• To Washington: Release the Minab investigation, confess 1953, apologize for Flight 655, and proclaim peace before the sword (Deuteronomy 20:10).
• To Jerusalem: Do justice, love covenant loyalty, and walk humbly with your Elohim (Micah 6:8).
• To the people of Iran: Yahweh called a Persian king His anointed (Isaiah 45:1). We do not hate you. We mourn Minab's children and your sons and daughters killed in January alike.
• To our fellow Americans: Let no foreign army tell you how to vote, and let no government tell you what to believe without two or three witnesses. Choose leaders such as fear Elohim, men of truth, hating unjust gain (Exodus 18:21).