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President Donald Trump has announced that Washington and Tehran have signed an agreement with two pillars: reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ensuring the Islamic Republic cannot develop a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

Read more The still-mysterious Iran deal leaves a LOT of work undone \u2014 at best<\/a><\/p>\n

While the details, including the sequencing of concessions such as sanctions relief, are yet to be publicized, the Iranian people remain absent from the agenda.<\/p>\n

That is a problem.<\/p>\n

The true path to lasting regional stability runs through the Iranian people \u2014 the regime\u2019s primary existential threat and the Middle East\u2019s largest anti-Islamist and most pro-American and pro-Israeli population.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Tehran\u2019s propaganda machine is already spinning the narrative, declaring victory and claiming it was able to \u201cimpose its will on\u201d the United States.<\/p>\n

But Washington\u2019s failure to publicize the deal means many Iranians are hearing only the regime\u2019s side of the story.<\/p>\n

With restrictions from Iran\u2019s longest internet blackout beginning to ease, Trump now has an opportunity to speak directly to the millions of Iranians who viewed the latest conflict as a campaign against their oppressors.<\/p>\n

The Tehran regime has suffered a heavy blow, with numerous senior military figures eliminated and its missile infrastructure decimated.<\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed on the first day of the latest conflict, and officials kept his funeral on hold for more than four months amid fears over the security situation.<\/p>\n

The tyrant\u2019s death marked a moment millions of Iranians, myself among them, had waited nearly four decades to celebrate.<\/p>\n

As the news spread, anti-regime chants echoed from rooftops while men and women danced and set off fireworks in cities across the country, including Khamenei\u2019s hometown of Mashhad.<\/p>\n

Those of us in the diaspora rejoiced from afar.<\/p>\n

Trump broke away from his predecessors when he spoke directly to the people of Iran on the first day of the conflict, saying \u201cthe hour of your freedom is at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmerica is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Trump and CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper both reiterated that while it was not safe for Iranians to mobilize as military operations were ongoing, there would come \u201ca clear signal\u201d from Washington when it was time to \u201ctake control of your government.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that call never came.<\/p>\n

So what happens now?<\/p>\n

Even if Tehran holds up its end of the bargain and halts its attacks against the Strait of Hormuz, and even if the U.S. naval blockade is removed, it is still imperative for Iran not to get sanctions relief or repatriate its oil revenues.<\/p>\n

Since the April ceasefire, the increasingly paranoid Islamic Republic has instituted hundreds of checkpoints that have become extrajudicial killing zones for ordinary Iranians, alongside public hangings of dissidents and mass arrests.<\/p>\n

Any economic relief granted to the regime inevitably fuels its war against the Iranian people.<\/p>\n

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Washington must complement any deal with maximum support to the millions of Iranians the regime has held hostage.<\/p>\n

That means satellite connectivity as a lasting solution to Tehran\u2019s internet blackouts \u2014 critically needed to facilitate a messaging campaign to capitalize on the rising momentum against the regime\u2019s repression apparatus.<\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic and the Iranian people are not the same.<\/p>\n

President Trump has said so in the past, and he is right.<\/p>\n

Now is the time for him to remind Iranians that Washington still knows the difference.<\/p>\n

Janatan Sayeh, born and raised in Tehran, is the Iran analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focused on Iranian domestic affairs and the Islamic Republic\u2019s regional malign influence.<\/em><\/p>\n

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