Staff Reports
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has done something unexpected and revealing: it wrote a 26‑page open letter urging Americans to vote against President Trump and Republican candidates. That plea is not a friendly bit of foreign advice — it is blunt election interference and, oddly enough, a confession that U.S. pressure is working. If you needed proof that our policies are hurting the mullahs, here it is in black and white from Tehran’s strongest arm.
What the IRGC letter actually says
The IRGC’s long letter tries to explain why Iranians chant “Death to America,” claims the IRGC is not a terrorist group, and urges U.S. voters to “remove from power the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians” who put America “in its current state.” The spokesman even suggested Americans don’t know the full story and would change their minds if they did. Translation: the IRGC thinks its propaganda can flip American voters. That’s laughable — and dangerous.
Why this is clear election interference
Foreign actors telling Americans how to vote is textbook election meddling. The IRGC is not a neutral commentator offering policy analysis; it is an arm of a regime that sponsors proxies, runs an expansionist policy across the Middle East, and sidelines any internal dissent. For a foreign military group to weigh in on our midterms is an insult to American sovereignty and a reminder that Washington must guard elections from outside influence just as much as from domestic fraud.
A backhanded compliment to President Trump
Here’s the delicious irony: the very fact that the IRGC is urging Americans to vote Democrat underscores that President Trump’s strategy of maximum pressure and support for partners in the region has been effective. When your enemy spends 26 pages pleading for other people’s votes because of your policies, that’s not strength — it’s panic. If the mullahs prefer Democrats in power, Republican voters should take that as a clear sign they are on the right track.
What Americans should take away
Voters should treat this letter for what it is — foreign propaganda and meddling dressed up as advice. The proper response is twofold: tighten safeguards against outside interference, and judge candidates by how they protect American interests, not by what hostile foreign actors prefer. We won’t be lectured by the IRGC about democracy while it crushes dissent at home. Americans should reject foreign tips about our elections and keep putting national security first.
