President sir, Mr Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America, Greetings, I am Lotfollah Meysami, a graduate of oil engineering from Tehran University. During the 1960s, I was sent to the United States by Lavan oil (petroleum) company on two occasions to learn how the country’s oil industry works. During the 1970s, I spent seven and half years in the Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s prisons. After the 1979 revolution, I spent nine months in prison in the Islamic Republic of Iran. After the revolution, since October 1981, I have been the owner of the two periodicals called Rah-e Mojahed and Cheshmandaz-e Iran (Iranian Perspective). I have also been the manager of the Samadieh Publishing Company since 1998. I lost my eyes and one of my hands during the struggle for the Islamic Revolution. Despite this, I have translated seven books during these years, the list of which is enclosed to this letter. I gradually lost confidence in the United States after the August 1953 coup d’état against the popular government of the democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosddeq. I realized that multinational oil and arms companies, which President Eisenhower referred to as the military-industrial complex, had no respect for our national sovereignty. Their sole goal was oil extraction and arms sales by means of oppression, and war, if necessary. In one of the books I translated, The Choice; Global Domination or Global Leadership, Zbigniew Brezezinski states that the United States tries to shift from a negative or dominant superpower to a positive or scientific-technological superpower. Reading and translating this book gave me some hope that the United States intends to take steps towards world peace after staging 60 coups d’etat in the global south. Reading John Tirman's 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World, I relized that democracy is undermind in a hundred ways. I did not keep the original title of the book in translation and changed it to Cherishing Democracy. I hoped that cherishing democracy, holding it dear, will lead to setting aside those policies that rely on dominatrion and wars of aggression. Steven Kinser states in his All the Shah’s Men that had there been no British-American August-1953 coup d’etat there would probaly be no September 11 in New York, Virginia and Pensylvania. The September 11 attacks came thirty years after the U.S. assisted coup against the government of Dr. Salvador Allende in Chile in the same month and on the same day. Reading John Perknins’ Confessions of an Economic Hitman, I noticed that while he acknowledges the U.S. involvement in the August 1953 coup, he goes further to say that the United States has trained a cadre of coup makers like Kermit Roosevelt to commit similar acts in other countries. So far, no official condemnation of this coup d’etat has been put forward by the U.S. or Britain. I also translated John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt’s The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. They document how after the September 11 attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the Israeli prime minister, Mr. Binjamin Natanyahu, travelled to the United States to encourage American officials to adopt the global war on terror strategy. He tried to convince Americans that Palestinians- who have been driven out of their homes and homeland- lead global terrorism. I wonder why Americans fell into this formidable quagmire. The UN Charter has approved self-defense as a right for nations that fall victim to aggression. Then, why are Palestinians called ‘terrorist’? The main, and more important, point is that no Palestinians were involved in the September 11 attacks against the United States. The decision by the George W. Bush administration to wage war against Palestinians and seven countries supporting the Palestinian cause (Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Sudan) in the name of war against ‘global terror’ was an attempt in distorting historical facts. Mearsheimer and Walt believe that Netanyahu convinced the Americans that combating Palestinian terrorism would be possible if the fight expands to include the nations supporting Palestine and opposing Israel leading to regime change and possibly disintegration of those nations. A retired American general and former NATO commander, Wesley Clark, also claimed back in 2003 that the United States had planned as early as 2001 to wage war and topple regimes in those seven countries in five years to align them with U.S. and Israeli interests. The Main question is which countries’ nationals were involved in the attack on the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon building in Virginia? This much distortion of facts does do justice to truth! The attackers were mainly Saudi nationals, but Mr. Bush cleared Saudi Arabia from any suspicion in an unprecedented way at a time it was rumored that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was pleading with God in Holly Mecca to save the Saudi kingdom. Mr. President, It is amazingly strange why the United States that considers itself to be a democratic superpower blindly follows the Zionist lobby and Israeli government’s lead, thereby foregoing its own power and greatness. Netanyahu has, For the past thirty years, envisioned bombing Iran as the only way of combating terrorism. Has this Israeli line produced any thing but loss for America? In an interview with the Daily Caller on August 29, 2025, you said Israel should end the war in Gaza because ‘they’re not winning the world of public relation.’ Renowned Israeli Scholar Ilan Pappe has recently written that Israel is at the pinnacle of its military power, and, at the same time, its image is at its nadir in world public opinion. It has become the most hated state in the world. Mr. Netanyahu misled US policymakers and pushed them along a blind emergency path. The cause of this ignorance should be probed by wise American experts. To understand the reasons for these cases of failure, we should go back to invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. None of the assailants involved in the September 11 attacks were Afghan nationals or affiliated with the Taliban. Mr. President, You have witnessed how, after four months of secret negotiations, the U.S. government facilitated the return of Taliban to power at the end of a devastating twenty-year war. Was this catastrophic process anything but pure loss? The U.S. government invaded Iraq in 2003, along the line Netanyahu had recommended. MR. Bush’s priorities were access to cheap oil and protecting Israel. Mr. President, I would like to directly address your conscience and sense of fairness: what should have those seven nations subject to regime-change strategy done? Should they have cooperated in their own overthrow or remain passive in the face of invasion and the collapse of their states? Any fair person would naturally reply in the negative. One must resist illegal foreign invasion in any way possible. Mr. President, Have you ever thought about the fact that the ‘axis of resistance’ did not suddenly fall from the sky and, in fact, your country willingly fell in the trap of creating the exigency that produced this axis? Had the nations and the states confronted with this ‘state of exception’ any other choice? In confronting this onslaught, even the United Nations has sided with Palestinian resistance. Anyone believing in the legitimacy of the UN and global institutions should resist this destructive strategy. Palestinian people have resisted occupation, apartheid, aggression and oppression for 77 years and armies of justice support them around the world. Are knowledgeable people in your country happy about the course of events in Iraq? Certainly not! Hundreds of books have been written about the injustices and crimes that occurred in Iraq. It is a vast field of inquiry, but it is enough to note that in 2007, four years after the invasion, Mr. Obama openly admitted that the invasion of Iraq was a ‘catastrophe’. And catastrophes are earthquakes with a magnitude of 8 or more on the Richter scale. It is interesting to note that Mr. Obama could win over a significant number of voters for expressing such a view. This showed that, contrary to their leaders, the American people did not support war mongers. Was it fair to equate the secular ideology of the Iraqi Ba>th with fundamentalist terrorism? Mr. President, To win votes, your 2016 election campaign focused on ending the ‘never ending wars’. What then caused this change of course and adopting the Israeli line of regime change in what remains of the original list of seven nations? You fell into the same trap and seem to be en route to another never-ending war with Iran. Have the huge negative consequences of the invasion of Iraq not been enough to make American politicians come to their senses and realize the damage such wars inflict on other nations, including the ones President George W. Budh categorized as ‘the axis of evil’? Scholars of addiction say addiction to power is like addiction to narcotics. One who is entrapped in claws of addiction is comparable to someone being pushed forward by the flow of a wild river and cannot stop, even if one wished to. Such a person will not stop unless he is blocked by a huge rock standing against the violent stream. Were Afghanistan and Iraq huge enough rocks, sufficient reasons, to stop you from going with the flow? Addiction to power is strange… Mr. President, You very well know that Israel was originally established based on democratic and socialist slogans. Yet, Mr. Netanyahu officially dismissed any alternative to the ‘Jewish identity’ of the state governing the historical Palestine. One wishes true teachings of Prophet Moses were followed in Israel. Netanyahu has turned the Jewish faith into a national identity utilized at the service of Zionist colonization of Palestine. In Israel there is racial discrimination not only against Palestinians, but also against some Jewish groups. Mr. President, How is the pursuit of your MAGA project, the renewal of American greatness, compatible with contributing to the elimination of the Palestinian people by the most extreme sect in Israel? People around the world identify American greatness with the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Jhon Kennedy, not with blindly following an extremist sect. You know well that Netanyahu tried to subordinate the Israeli judiciary to the executive branch, and this caused a protest wave that lasted for 40 weeks. Even the Israeli army accused Netanyahu of placing his political priorities above security imperatives. This cleavage resulted in the security void that Hams exploited and crossed the border to temporarily conquer eleven military bases on October 7, 2023. Netanyahu should be accountable against these charges before courts and the reason for continuing the war is to avoid such accountability. Mr. President, Thomas Friedman, the editorial board member of the New York Times, is a Zionist. He wrote several times to Mr. Biden warning him that following Netanyahu’s lead will foment hatred against the U.S. along with Israel. As a Zionist, he is concerned about the interests of Israel. But in those letters to President Biden, he stressed that Netanyahu’s actions are against those interests. Mr. President, Do you doubt the sincerity of the late Martin Indyke, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel, about his genuine commitment to American and Israeli interests? Was he not the architect of the ‘dual containment’ policy against Iran and Iraq to strengthen the position of Israel? Could there be more commitment to U.S. and Israeli interests? This same Mr. Indyke was opposed to sending more arms to Israel during the final months of his life. Another former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, also opposes your current policy of unconditional support for Israel. Why are U.S. ambassadors, whose job requires them to promote U.S. and Israeli interests, opposed your policies in this regard? The irony is that even the Persian-speaking promoters of Israeli policies (the likes of Nourizadeh, Menashe Amir, Charlangi) regret that people they consider ‘Hamas terrorists’ have become popular and large crowds protest in favor of them 30 meters from the White House. Even these people condemn Netanyahu’s actions and believe that the legitimacy of Israel and the Zionist lobby has been wiped out. Highly respected Israeli historian Ilan Pappe recently reiterated what he had said 22 months ago: Israel’s war in Gaze is the beginning of the end of Israel, albeit not very soon. Mr. President, At least since the presidency of Obama, reliable public opinion polls show that American people oppose foreign intervention and consider U.S. invasions of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq were mistakes. Even significant majorities of American war veterans consider the Iraq and Afghanistan wars “not worth fighting”. The same is true about the general U.S. public. Winner of Nobel Prize, Paul Robin Krugman, in Economics warned that the U.S. economy cannot be the logistical hub for war. During your own presidency all the major intelligence, political and cultural institutions in the U.S. have been against another war. But to maintain U.S. leadership of the capitalist world and, at the same time, end all never-ending wars you engaged in dirty wars against Iran and Palestine to prevent the entry of the United States into another full-scale war. The war in Yemen and American involvement in it made it clear that the U.S. does not want to engage in an all-out war. The dirty war waged by you and Mr. Netanyahu is equating what you did in Fordo to Truman’s atomic attack against Nakazaki and Hiroshima. You made the comparison several times. You have also fully supported Netanyahu in his dirty war of genocide in Gaza. Do you think your MAGA project would be realized through bombing nuclear sites in Iran and genocide in Gaza? You have given free rein to the Military-Industrial Complex that has engineered 60 coups d’etat in the third world and ignited hatred of the United States around the world. Maybe rebuilding American greatness is better realized through what Brzezinski envisioned as moving from a negative superpower to a scientific-technological positive superpower and pave the way for people around the world to voluntarily choose to side with America, like Kennedy’s era. Mr. President, As you know, Mr. Biden approved Israel’s actions while, at the same time, trying to moderate its policies. But the Israeli security establishment’s response was: ‘you (the U.S.) bombed Hiroshima. The scale and intensity of Israeli violence in Gaza have not reached that level yet. So, why do you condemn our genocide in Gaza?’ Mr. President, The path you have taken will not make America great. It is the road to make America the object of disgust around the world the way Israel has now become a pariah state. Mr. President, You are aware that the extremist sect ruling Israel now intends to wipe the Palestinian people off the map, as the white colonialists did to the First Nations in the American continent. Bill Clinton said no American president had ever ordered the people of the capital city of another country to evacuate their town, as you did during the devastating Israeli attacks in Iran. Ordering the evacuation of a huge megapolis meant that an atomic attack was imminent! Do you understand the kind of harassment and anxiety experienced by the people subject to that order? Is this how you are going to make America great again? It seems your actions occur in the context of confrontation between a thriving global Palestine and a declining global Israel. Your concern is that after supporting Israeli actions for 77 years, you are facing the fact that this unconditional support has become a major liability, or even a major defeat, for the western civilization. Wiping out the Palestinian people is not like the previous experience of wiping out the indigenous populations of America. In the age of mass media all Israeli crimes are instantly recorded and reported in different languages around the world. Mr. President, Today, in Ney York, a city where 13 percent of the population is Jewish, Zohran Mamdani in alliance with a progressive anti-Zionist Jew and with a clear pro-Palestinian agenda, is the frontrunner in the New York city mayor’s race. You have threatened to cut the federal budget for the city if he wins. In the universities across America, student movements have risen in support of Palestine. While most of these student activists are Jewish, you ruthlessly crackdown on these movements under the guise of combating ‘antisemitism’. You know that in the 2020 presidential election, J-Street jews voted for Biden based on the promise that he would rein in Netanyahu’s unilateral actions. Biden did not keep his promise. The Vietnam war ended when it spilled into American cities. Perhaps it is time the Israeli-American war on Gaza spills into U.S. cities to end the destructive onslaught on Gaza. Mr. President, In the last parliamentary elections in Britain, Labour candidates who supported the Palestinian cause defeated the conservatives in districts the latter had formerly enjoyed majorities and this contributed to the overall Labor Party victory. Jeremy Corbyn was expelled from Labour Party because he supported the Palestinian cause but his new ‘Your Party’ is building a solid base of support in Britain. Mr. President, Perhaps you are not familiar with the story of the rise of Hamas, especially Israel’s role in that rise. Since the Oslo Accords and the formation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, the policy of the Israeli right, and Netanyahu in particular, had been to keep Gaza and the West Bank separated and to intensify inter-Palestinian rivalries in order to prevent the formation of a unified political entity that could pave the way for a two-state solution to the Palestinian problem. Since 2006, Hamas has ruled Gaza and during all these years Israeli governments allowed and in fact supervised the flow of financial aid from some Persian Gulf Arab monarchies to the Gaza Strip. 416 of the activists who later formed the leadership and rank and file of Hamas were Gaza residents expelled from their homes and sent to exile abroad. When no other Arab country gave refuge to these exiles, they took refuge in southern Lebanon and were trained by the Lebanese Resistance to later go back to Gaza and join the ranks of Hamas. Was sending the native host into exile right or moral? You seem to overlook the corrupt policies of the Israeli government that amount to state-led terrorism. Mr. President, Lebanon’s Hezbollah is also a defensive response to Israeli aggression. Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and advanced towards Beirut and laid siege to the city. The Shia and other Lebanese groups formed a resistance to the occupation in defense of their land and culture. After 18 years of struggle, they drove the Israeli army out of Lebanon. The success of the Lebanese resistance in defeating foreign aggression without external help inspired the Palestinian people who rose up in the first Intifada in the occupied territories. This was legitimate defense against occupation and oppression. Mr. President, You call the (Houthi-led) government of Yemen an Iranian proxy. Yemen has a long history of civilization and culture and struggle for independence. In the 1960s, there was a revolution and an ensuing civil war in Yemen after republican officers staged a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr government in 1962. Egyptian army intervened in support of the republicans and Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iran provided support for Imam al-Badr’s forces. After the independence of South Yemen and the end of British rule in 1967, the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen was established. It developed strong ties to the Soviet Union and in the 1970s acquired Scud B and C missiles with a range of 700 km. from the Soviets. Around the same time, the Shah of Iran was interested in acquiring cruse missiles from the United States, but the latter did not agree to sell those weapons to Iran. As you see, The Yemenis have a longer history of working with missiles than Iran. They managed to resist eight years of air, sea and land invasion of Saudi Arabia and its allies. How then could the Ansarallah government in Yemen be an Iranian proxy? Perhaps you are not familiar with the origins of foreign meddling in Syria. If you refer to what your current health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr., has published on the topic in recent years, you will find out about important facts. Or you will notice where lies the root cause of many problems if you remember the words of Joe Biden, then Obama’s vice president, that explicitly pointed to meddling in Syria by U.S. allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Türkiye. Mr. President, Once Ronald Reagan embarked on promoting ‘democracy’ in other countries. Now, you are promoting sectarianism by supporting Zionist expansionism, the realization of ‘Greater Israel, and the attempt to wipe out the Palestinian nation. In this way, you have galvanized world public opinion against the U.S. and the Israeli Lobby. By continuing the genocide and insisting on wiping out the Palestinian national identity on one hand, and the strike you ordered on Fordo and then compared it to what Truman did in Hiroshima on the other, it won’t be long before the discourse of justice for Palestine would gain more strength and overcome the discourse justifying occupation, apartheid and denial of Palestinian national rights. Common sense and fairness will advise you against continuing along this path. This path will only further mobilize the world against you and Israel. Your most recent significant action was, consciously or inadvertently, to allow Israel to bomb the Palestinian negotiators who were discussing your peace proposal in Qatar. It reminded everyone of Kissinger’s wisdom: 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.' I hope you take long strides towards peace in this region and avoid the path of domination and let Iran breahte and thrive. Lotfollah Meysami
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President sir, Mr Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America,
