Iran's IRGC Tells US Voters to 'Wake Up' in Open Letter

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published a 25-page open letter addressed to American voters on Tuesday, urging them to “wake up” and use the November midterm elections to change the country’s political direction, according to Time and Al Jazeera.

IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi announced the letter, which arrives roughly five weeks before the midterms and seven months into the US-Israel war against Iran, Time reported. “Americans need to wake up. Now is the time, as the American political system is at its weakest,” the letter states, according to Time.

Disputing Trump’s Strike Claims

The letter directly challenges President Trump’s February justification for striking Iran, which he framed at the time as necessary to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It accuses the Trump administration of being “a nonstop factory of lies,” Time reported, and singles out Trump’s post-strike declaration that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated.”

“But then, one year later, Trump again attacked Iran with the same hollow excuse,” the letter says, according to Time’s account. Iran has consistently maintained that its uranium enrichment program serves civilian purposes rather than weapons development, a position the IRGC repeated in the letter.

The nuclear dispute is not new rhetorical ground. Trump told reporters this week that Iran “will give up” its pursuit of nuclear capability, a comparison to North Korea this desk covered Monday, and the administration has separately denied offering Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for nuclear concessions, a denial reported the same day. Trump also this week called North Korea’s arsenal “pretty large” while drawing a distinction with Iran’s program, remarks this desk covered Tuesday.

Claiming Victory, Disputing Hormuz Leverage

Beyond the nuclear dispute, the letter declares Iran the victor of the broader war, stating that the United States “failed to achieve any of their declared objectives,” according to Al Jazeera. The IRGC also rejected US assertions that Iran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz has diminished, with Mohebbi arguing that restricted vessel passage does not mean the strait is functionally open, Al Jazeera reported.

That claim comes days after a vessel was struck near the strait, an incident the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency reported and this desk covered Monday. The letter does not address that specific incident directly, according to the available reporting from Time and Al Jazeera.

A Direct Appeal on Gaza and Lebanon

The letter also appeals to American voters to “stop their government” from continuing to back Israeli military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, which it frames as funded by US taxpayers, Time reported. The IRGC’s messaging ties the nuclear and Hormuz disputes to this broader appeal, casting the war and its costs as evidence that “corrupt politicians” in Washington should be replaced.

Coverage of the letter’s release, including a report from the Times of India describing the IRGC’s tone toward Trump as mocking, framed the document as part of a pattern of Iranian officials publicly challenging the administration’s account of the war’s outcome.

What’s Unconfirmed

The full text of the 25-page letter had not been independently published in English by either Time or Al Jazeera at the time of their reporting, and this desk has not reviewed the complete document. The White House did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment by publication time, and no Trump administration official had issued a public response to the letter as of this writing. The letter’s actual reach or intended distribution method among American voters was not specified in either outlet’s reporting.

Analysis: A Campaign-Season Message, Not a Policy Shift

This section is analysis, not reporting.

An open letter from a foreign military organization urging American voters to change their government is unlikely to move votes on its own, and it carries an obvious credibility problem given its source. What it does confirm is that Iranian officials see the seven-month war and its aftermath as a live information contest rather than a settled matter — one they are now trying to wage inside the US midterm cycle rather than only through statements aimed at domestic or regional audiences. The letter’s substantive claims, on the nuclear program’s civilian character and on Hormuz remaining a lever of pressure, are consistent with positions Iranian officials have taken for months and do not represent new disclosed information. Whether the letter draws any formal US government response, and whether independent nuclear inspectors weigh in on the enrichment claims it revives, would be the more meaningful indicators to watch in the days ahead.