"You promised": Iranians express disappointment over lack of international intervention

Members“You promised”: Iranians express disappointment over lack of international intervention

Activists tell Israeli media there’s a feeling Trump and Israel are abandoning Iranians, but stress it’s not too late to act.

Israel Today Staff

Jan 26, 2026 at 9:15 am

| Topics: Iran

Two prominent Iranian dissidents, speaking from exile, have issued a stark message to America and Israel: The time for symbolic solidarity is over. What’s needed now is decisive action.

In remarks to Israeli media, Navid Mohebbi and Khosro Isfahani—members of the US-based opposition group NUFDI (National Union for Democracy in Iran) and close associates of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi—warned that the protest movement inside Iran remains alive but vulnerable. Without external support, they say, the movement risks being extinguished by a regime that continues to crush dissent with impunity.

“In Israel they called on Iranians to rise up,” noted Mohebbi, a former political prisoner who fled Iran in 2011, in remarks to Israel’s N12 news portal. “People did. There was a massacre. And then no one came. The disappointment is hard to describe.”

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