force the Senate to vote to stop this war.
>> At the start of the war in Iran, we checked in with
two Iranians who have lived and worked in Wisconsin for
years but maintain close ties with their country.
The shock and awe of those early days was, of course,
distressing and terrifying. This week we checked back
in with them to see what they think of the end of
hostilities. With a signed agreement between the U.S.
and Iran. They both said they don't trust the
Iranian regime to uphold agreements, and it must now
be up to the civilian population in Iran to take
back their country, no matter the odds. Here are
Ali Soltani and Zara Fakhri speaking about the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps and the regime. In the face
of the agreement with the U.S.
>> Iranians are in constant war while the IRGC is in
power and the IRGC has repeatedly failed in any
agreement with any country, with any group or community.
So that's why for Iranians, there is no longer hope or
believing in any agreements that is done by these
people. We do not trust them. We do not believe in
them. And we are not seeing any progress because for 47
years they have shown themselves. So we also do
not believe that it's a real agreement.
>> What we have to realize is that this cessation of
hostilities, peace talks, whatever you want to call
it, it's only possible with freedom for the Iranian
people. The nature of this regime has not changed.
Whether what they're doing is the result of basically
military pressure. So they welcome war. They want war,
they want crisis. They want these kind of things to
suppress the internal aspirations of the Iranian
people. So they're there because they're forced to.
The real fight is actually between the Iranian people
and this regime within the last four days, since
Saturday until Tuesday, they have executed 61
people, 61 prisoners. That is one every three hours.
So they're very scared of the people and their
uprising and their organized resistance.
>> It was a roller coaster for all of us because it's
not acceptable to see your country being bombed or
being under UN strikes. But at the same time, the
wildest thing that I've heard from many Iranians is
that we are even okay with that. If the day after
bombing or strikes, we see free Iran and there is no
IRGC and they toppled. So that was the only thing
that we were looking for. Although we were all full
of fear, we were all worried about our family
members, our relatives. >> You cannot overthrow a
regime with bombing, okay? From air, it's impossible,
especially a regime that's ideologically driven. You
need the people inside Iran, the organized opposition
that we have, they know every way there is. They
know the people inside Iran. They know who is
responsible. >> Right now. I think after
all of the things and complications that has
happened, they got even more confident because they
faced the war with Israel and United States. I cannot
call any other country who is more powerful in
military services or powers in this kind of matter. But
now they say that we won't over Israel, we won't over
United States. So I think the worst thing that I
could see after the war was seeing them getting more
confident. That's the worst thing that I could see.
>> You know, the last four uprisings in Iran, one in I
think was 2019 was for the gas prices that went up in
2018. I think it was price of chicken that went up in
2026. The last one that we saw it was in started from
Bazaar because of the price of the dollar just
increased a lot. So this regime is incapable of
solving the Iranian people's problems. So as
long as the structure is corrupt and you cannot
address the basic needs of the Iranian people, the
these uprisings will happen. It's a matter of time.
>> We are full of hope. >> It has been for 47 years.
I mean, not the generation at the time that they were
protesting or they were fighting against IRGC the
second generation of that. And I know the third
generation are right now joining us everywhere, even
in social media, TikTok and Instagram. So I don't see
that anyone has lost their hope. We we are full of
hope because we we read the history. There is no
dictatorship that they can last long.
>> The people of Iran need to rise up themselves and.
And they do have organized resistance. They need to
basically get the international community's
recognition. That's what we need. We don't need any
help money. We don't need any soldiers or boots on
the ground from foreign powers. We need their
recognition and their help to basically help the
Iranian people. >> The first priority for
all Iranians right now is to be the voice of Iranian
people inside Iran, and also showing the whole
world that what is real world that what is real