Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps appealed directly to Americans weeks before the November midterm elections, urging them to pressure Washington to close overseas military bases, withdraw troops, halt aid to Israel and redirect military spending toward the U.S. economy.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a lengthy appeal directly to the American public, urging U.S. voters to pressure the Trump administration to reduce the country’s military presence abroad, end financial support for Israel and change Washington’s approach to the Middle East.
The 25-page letter, released Tuesday with the November midterm elections approaching, presents Tehran’s account of the ongoing conflict with the United States and Israel while repeatedly distinguishing between the American public and U.S. political leaders.
The IRGC argues that Americans and Iranians should not view one another as enemies and contends that the economic and human costs of U.S. foreign policy fall heavily on ordinary Americans.
At the center of the full document is an appeal for Americans to challenge their government’s overseas military commitments and use domestic political pressure to force a change in policy.
The letter portrays the seven-month conflict as a strategic defeat for the United States and Israel and a victory for Iran. Those assertions represent the IRGC’s characterization of the war and include numerous claims about battlefield losses, military capabilities and strategic outcomes that are disputed by Washington and have not all been independently verified.
The IRGC argues that the United States failed to accomplish what the document describes as Washington’s original objectives in the conflict, including weakening or overthrowing Iran’s government and reducing the country’s military capabilities.
It further contends that Iran has maintained its missile and drone capacity, preserved its political system and demonstrated an ability to impose significant costs on U.S. forces in the region.
The letter goes considerably beyond military claims, presenting a broader argument that decades of overseas intervention, military spending and support for U.S. allies have contributed to what the IRGC describes as American economic and geopolitical decline.
Its authors urge Americans to respond through political action at home.
“One of the measures that Americans can demand of their government for revitalizing the American economy is shutting down the 800 costly and useless American bases that are scattered throughout the world and bringing all American service members back home,” Iran insisted.
The document does not limit its recommendations to the U.S. military presence.
“Pressure your government to the put an end to the endless aid Israel has been receiving from you; to avoid entering endless wars of aggression; to shut down the hundreds of costly media outlets and intelligence networks used to instigate coups, support dictators, and sow unrest; and to redirect the trillions of dollars spent on these subversive activities to advance scientific research high-tech industrial manufacturing in the U.S.” it went on. “There is no doubt that if the American government heeds these demands, the U.S. will once again take its place as the world’s leading economy and American will once again enjoy a prosperous life.”
The economic argument runs throughout the letter.
The IRGC portrays American military expenditures abroad as resources that could instead be directed toward scientific research, advanced manufacturing and other domestic priorities. It argues that U.S. taxpayers ultimately bear the financial consequences of military intervention while political leaders remain insulated from those costs.
The letter also presents an expansive critique of America’s global military footprint, intelligence activities and support for Israel, attempting to connect those policies with inflation, government debt and broader economic pressures experienced by U.S. households.
Those arguments reflect the Iranian government’s position and do not establish that withdrawing U.S. forces or ending aid to Israel would produce the economic results predicted in the letter.
The IRGC also uses the document to reject the idea that anti-American rhetoric used by Iranian authorities and supporters represents hostility toward the American population itself.
It maintains instead that slogans such as “Death to America” are directed against U.S. political leadership and government policies rather than Americans as individuals.
That distinction forms an important part of the appeal. The letter repeatedly describes Americans as victims of the same political system that Iran blames for military action abroad, attempting to establish common interests between the populations of the two countries despite decades of hostility between their governments.
The message arrives during an active armed conflict in which both sides continue to offer sharply different accounts of military success.
The IRGC declares that Iran has already prevailed strategically, arguing that Washington failed to achieve its objectives and suffered major losses to military infrastructure and equipment throughout the Persian Gulf region.
The United States has not accepted that characterization.
The Trump administration has continued applying military and economic pressure on Tehran while maintaining that its actions are intended to counter Iranian military capabilities and prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
The two governments also remain divided over the terms of any settlement capable of ending the conflict.
Against that backdrop, the IRGC’s decision to address Americans directly places domestic U.S. politics explicitly into Tehran’s public messaging.
The document was released roughly five weeks before the November congressional elections and encourages Americans to use political pressure to alter Washington’s foreign policy.
It criticizes President Donald Trump repeatedly and urges Americans to reconsider the direction of U.S. policy toward Iran, Israel and the broader Middle East.
Rather than presenting the conflict exclusively as a confrontation between governments, the letter seeks to persuade Americans that continued military involvement is contrary to their own economic interests.
The document also argues that Washington is losing international influence as resources are directed toward military operations overseas while competitors invest more heavily in technology, infrastructure and industrial development.
Iran’s assertion that the United States is headed toward inevitable decline is presented throughout the letter as a consequence of what Tehran characterizes as excessive military commitments and interventionist foreign policy.
The IRGC simultaneously depicts Iran as having emerged stronger from the conflict, asserting that the war strengthened domestic solidarity and demonstrated that the country could withstand a substantially more powerful adversary.
Many of the document’s broader historical, military and economic assertions are presented from the Iranian government’s perspective and are highly contested.
The timing of the appeal is nevertheless notable.
Rather than limiting its public message to U.S. officials or international diplomatic channels, the IRGC is directly addressing American voters while specifically recommending policies it wants them to demand from their government.
Its principal requests are clear: remove U.S. military forces from overseas bases, reduce Washington’s involvement in foreign conflicts, end American assistance to Israel and move federal resources toward domestic economic development.
The appeal therefore serves several purposes at once — defending Iran’s conduct in the conflict, challenging Washington’s version of events, portraying Tehran as militarily successful and encouraging Americans to pressure their elected government to abandon policies Iran has opposed for decades.
Whether those arguments have any measurable effect on American public opinion is uncertain. What is clear is that Tehran has chosen to make its case directly to U.S. citizens at a politically significant moment, framing withdrawal from the Middle East not merely as an Iranian objective but as a policy it claims would benefit Americans themselves.
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