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Sen. Ted Cruz did what too many in Washington won’t: he stood openly and proudly with the brave Iranians risking everything to topple a murderous clerical regime. Cruz’s recent remarks and video posts made clear that he views these protests not as a distant foreign squabble but as a historic moment for freedom—and he urged Americans to back the Iranian people’s fight for liberty on outlets like The Chris Salcedo Show and his public X post.
What’s happening on the streets of Tehran and cities across Iran is not a small labor dispute or a momentary flare-up—it’s a nationwide uprising that has spread to hundreds of locations and provinces, with millions of citizens refusing to live under the Ayatollah’s thumb. This wave of dissent grew from economic collapse and crushed freedoms into an existential challenge to the regime, with protesters daring to chant that the Islamic Republic must fall.
The regime answered the people’s courage with repression and a blackout, cutting internet and phone lines while security forces opened fire on demonstrators; credible reporting shows mass arrests and terrifying casualty estimates emerging even through the censorship. Americans who value freedom should be outraged that Tehran would try to bury its brutality in darkness while the world watches—these are not faceless mobs but mothers, students, and workers demanding dignity.
Sen. Cruz is right to connect these protests to core American security interests; a free Iran would be a huge strategic win for the West and a blow to the terrorism state Tehran has been for decades. He’s repeatedly pushed for tough sanctions and accountability for regime leaders, and his clarity on cutting off the Ayatollah’s funding for proxies is exactly the kind of principle-driven foreign policy Americans must demand.
Meanwhile, the usual chorus of left-wing appeasers and the woke foreign-policy elite are dangerously muted or fixated on platitudes instead of action. If conservatives believe in liberty, we don’t posture—we act: push for maximum pressure on the regime, expand communications lifelines for protesters, offer refuge to dissidents, and make it unmistakably clear that the West stands with those fighting for freedom, not with theocrats who butcher their own people.
This is a moment for boldness, not half-measures. The American people and leaders like Sen. Cruz must back the courageous Iranians—not because of partisan theater, but because supporting human freedom and cracking the spine of a regime that threatens our allies and funds terror is what keeps this country and the free world safe.
