As President Trump moved closer to taking military action against Iran, Marziyeh Amirizadeh — the WorldNetDaily columnist whose sole claim to fame is having converted to Christianity in Iran — gave her approval in a Jan. 30 column:
There have been recent reports of the U.S. issuing maximal demands on the Islamic Republic of Iran to avoid a threatened military attack, and Islamist states such as Qatar, Turkey and Oman encouraging the ayatollahs to give President Trump some concessions in order to avoid a war. Reported U.S. demands include a permanent end to nuclear enrichment, limiting the quantity and reach of its ballistic missiles, and cessation of support for its terror proxies including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen.
Recently as well, EU foreign ministers have adopted new sanctions on Iran, targeting both leaders and organizations that are involved with the unprecedented violence and brutality targeting and massacring Iranian civilians.
All this sounds good, hard hitting, and maybe even hopeful. But the truth is one cannot negotiate with Islamic terrorists in general, and the Islamic Republic specifically. Ever.
[…]The United States must disregard Qatar, Turkey and Oman as bad actors which promote their own extremist Islam. Other than using the Islamic practice of taqiyah, to lie to and deceive the world, the Islamic Republic has no regard for the well-being of Iranian citizens, much less of people anywhere else.
[…]The end of the Islamic Republic must be the only objective; otherwise, we will be back in the same place. From there, Iranians will stop being brutalized and slaughtered, Iran will become free, Israel will stop living under the threat of the regime and all its terror proxies, and the West will have eliminated a direct threat to its own values and the safety and well-being of its citizens and their very countries.
Join me in prayer that God will defeat demonic witchcraft plots by the regime and save innocent Iranians.
Amirizadeh hoped again for a U.S. military intervention in a Feb. 18 column:
Today, as we celebrate 250 years of American independence, America must commit itself to help the Iranian people become free and independent, and restore the 2500-year-old, proud, prosperous and enlightening Persian history.
Allowing the Islamic Republic one more day of oxygen is bad for Iran, bad for the Middle East, bad for America and Israel, and bad for the world. We must cut off the head of the octopus in Tehran and expose the regime’s agents across the world. There’s a lot of work to be done.
Looking at what’s happening in Iran, there is one ultimate solution for Iran and its long-term future, domestically and as a member of the family of nations. I know my people. I spent more than a decade inside Iran before I was arrested for sharing about Jesus. Especially because many Iranians have rejected Islam, they are ripe for a relationship with and to worship a God of love, the God in whom all prosperity and promises are found.
It’s my goal, through NewPersia.org, to lay the foundation for what will be the ultimate revolution. When the regime falls, we must bring the loving message of Jesus to the Iranian people, one that will change hearts and become the cornerstone for a thriving Iran for 2500 years to come. It’s all prophesied in Jeremiah 49, where God says he will establish His throne in Elam, modern Iran. We are desperately waiting for this vision to come true.
Is Amirizadeh calling for a forced conversion of Iranians to Christianity? She doesn’t say. Instead, she appeared to be rooting for the restoration of the previous dynasty (who similarly attacked its critics): “It’s amazing to see the Iranian people also united in support of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the only name of any Iranian leader to be chanted throughout Iran, with the prayer that he will return to Iran to restore the Pahlavi dynasty, and lead Iran to freedom.” Even Rudy Giuliani criticized calls for Pahlavi’s return.