Iran picked a side in November. The same regime that named America the Great Satan spent 26 pages asking you to change who runs Congress, and it did not pick Republicans.
On Tuesday, September 29, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published “An Open Letter to the Honorable People of the United States of America.” Twenty-five pages or twenty-six, depending on who did the counting. Either way, that is longer than most of my students’ research papers. And better formatted, frankly, which hurts.
The IRGC, for anyone keeping score at home, is the outfit President Trump designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2019. It is now giving civics lessons to Ohio.
What is next, a terrorist army writing campaign literature for an American election… oh. Wait. I was just handed a note. They already did that.
I teach science, so we will do this the way I grade a lab report. Claim. Evidence. Conclusion. But first I owe you something, because I cannot read this letter the way a pundit reads it. I read it as a man Iran has already tried to kill.
— WHY THIS ONE IS PERSONAL —
I was an Army medic in Iraq.
Iran’s militias blew up my vehicle while I was sitting in it. And they hurt my gunner.
I am going to say that again, slower, because I need the IRGC’s English-language PR department to understand it. They. Hurt. My. Gunner.
If you have never ridden in a turret-topped truck, here is what you need to know. The gunner is the one standing up. Half of his body is out in the open so the rest of us can sit down behind armor. He is the first set of eyes, the first one exposed, and when something goes wrong he is the first one it finds. Every medic in every convoy knows exactly where his gunner is at every second. You do not lose track of your gunner. Ever.
So when I hear a regime spokesman say there is not “a single verifiable instance” of the IRGC hurting anyone, I do not need a fact-checker. I need a minute. And maybe a walk around the block.
The State Department has stated that Iran was responsible for the deaths of at least 603 American service members in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, mostly through militias it trained, funded, and handed explosively formed penetrators. An EFP is a copper plate that turns into a molten slug and punches through armor like it is wet cardboard. I know what one does to a truck. I know what it does to the men inside. I did not learn it from a documentary.
And now that same regime wants to tell me how to vote.
No one hurts my gunner. Nobody. And they sure as heck do not get a vote in my country afterward.
— WHAT THE LETTER ACTUALLY SAYS —
Alright. Deep breath. Back to the lab report.
To be fair, and I am always fair, the letter never prints the letter D. It does not have to.
It tells Americans that politicians win votes through “deception and false promises, as Trump did,” and that we can “change the makeup of the government” by choosing differently. It calls the President a tyrant. It claims Iran won the war. (Bold strategy, considering the last seven months.) It wants American support for Israel ended and our overseas bases closed. Then it offers “peaceful coexistence.”
And then, in the same document, it warns that people around the world will set fire to American interests and assets if we do not change course.
Coexistence. With a lit match in the other hand. It reads less like a peace offer and more like a breakup text from a stalker. “I just want what’s best for you. Also, I know where you park.”
Now, the part that matters for your ballot. President Trump is not on it this November. The only way to “change the makeup of the government” in 2026 is to change who controls the House and the Senate. There are two parties on that ballot.
The IRGC can count to two. So can you.
Jonathan Turley put it about as well as anyone could: it is not a good sign when the IRGC shifts from “Death to America” to “Vote Democratic.”
— “WHY IS NOBODY REPORTING THIS?” —
Precision matters in this classroom, so here it is. Some outlets did. Reuters ran it. The New York Post ran it. The State Department answered it on Wednesday and called it a desperate smokescreen.
So let me ask the better question. How many minutes did your favorite evening newscast give it?
A designated terrorist organization publicly asking Americans to remove one party from power, five weeks before a federal election. If the Kremlin had mailed voters a 26-page letter begging them to vote Republican, we would know the font. We would know the paper weight. Rachel Maddow would have a corkboard and red string by Thursday.
Quinn’s Law Number 2: If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing. We spent years being told that a foreign power picking a side in an American election was a five-alarm emergency. It still is. It just gets a lot less interesting when the foreign power picks the “right” side.
— THIS IS NOT IRAN’S FIRST ELECTION —
The letter is new. The strategy is not.
o August 2020: the National Intelligence Council assessed that Iran was running an influence campaign to undermine the President and divide the country, and that Khamenei probably authorized it.
o 2024: the FBI and ODNI confirmed Iranian hackers broke into the Trump campaign, then sent the stolen material to people tied to the Biden campaign.
o November 2024: the Justice Department charged an IRGC-linked plot to assassinate Donald Trump.
Three straight cycles. Hack the man’s campaign. Plot to kill the man. Then write 26 pages asking you to strip his party of power. If that is a coincidence, it is the most consistent coincidence in the history of statistics, and I grade lab reports from teenagers who think a sample size of one is “basically proof.”
— “DEATH TO AMERICA” IS JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH —
The letter insists the chant does not express any ill will toward the American people. It is aimed at our government. Not us. Never us.
Wonderful. Very reassuring. Tell it to my gunner.
Tell it to the families of the 241 Americans killed in their Beirut barracks in 1983 by a truck bomb driven by Hezbollah, the militia Iran built from scratch. A U.S. federal court later held Iran liable.
And the Iranian people would like a word about that “we never hurt civilians” line, too. Ask the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old who died in the custody of the morality police in 2022 because of how she wore her hijab. Ask the protesters shot in the street for wanting the exact freedoms the American left gives speeches about.
“Death to America” does not mean death to Americans. Got it. And “the dog ate my homework” means the dog is a literary critic.
— A MAN WHO WAS THERE IN 1979 —
If you want to understand who is writing you letters, skip cable news. Read V.S. Naipaul.
Naipaul won a Nobel Prize in Literature, traveled through Iran right after the 1979 revolution, and wrote Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981). He was no conservative culture warrior. He was a skeptical, cranky, brilliant observer who could smell a fraud from across a courtyard. What he saw should keep you up at night.
He sat down with Ayatollah Khalkhali, the revolution’s “hanging judge,” who was openly pleased with himself over the executions he had ordered, the Shah’s former prime minister among them.
He met a young man in Malaysia who praised Khomeini as a good man. Naipaul asked why. The only reason the young man could give was that Khomeini had banned women from appearing on television. That was the whole résumé. That was enough.
Naipaul described a faith turned into a sealed political community, where everything outside it was “impious, impure, infidel.” His verdict after months on the ground was that the revolutionary faith could whip up a crowd, but it could not teach anyone how to run a modern state.
Forty-five years later, the state he watched being born is still running on fury instead of competence. Still exporting it. And now it would like to help you pick your Congress.
— FIGHT OR MADRID —
There are basically two ways a free people can answer terror.
One is United Flight 93, September 11, 2001. Passengers who had never met each other found out what the hijackers planned, took a vote, and rushed the cockpit. They died in a field in Pennsylvania, and the Capitol is still standing because of them. Nobody formed a committee. Nobody wrote a strongly worded letter. They fought.
The other is Madrid, March 2004. Terrorists bombed the commuter trains and killed nearly 200 people days before a national election. The voters changed the government, and the new government pulled Spain’s troops out of Iraq. The terrorists learned exactly the lesson they hoped to learn. Bombs work. Elections can be bought with them.
The IRGC letter is a polite request for Madrid. It asks you to vote for surrender and call it peace.
Quinn’s Law Number 15: To a liberal, every culture is unquestionable and of equal value, except the West’s. That is how you end up with college-educated Americans, bless their hearts, nodding along to a “peaceful coexistence” offer from people who chant for their death on a weekly schedule. Some folks are one fry short of a Happy Meal. Some are missing the whole bag.
— THE GREAT SATAN AND THE LITTLE SATAN —
One more correction for the record, because I have heard this one get mangled.
Khomeini did not call America the second-worst devil. He called us the GREAT Satan. Israel only got “Little Satan.” In the regime’s own theology, we outrank the Jewish state on the list of things to destroy.
So the next time someone tells you this whole war is “really about Israel,” gently remind them that Tehran’s own ranking system puts YOU in first place. Congratulations. Nobody asked for the trophy.
And when the regime that ranks you above Israel on its enemies list writes 26 pages about whom you should support in November, the conclusion does not require a PhD. It requires a pulse.
— THE ONE QUESTION —
Every Democrat running in November should be asked one question, on camera: Do you reject the IRGC’s support?
That is it. One question. It costs nothing to say yes. It is the easiest layup in American politics.
Keep track of who answers it plainly, and who pivots to “well, both sides.” The pivot is the answer.
And to every voter reading this: you do not have to love your Republican candidate. I have said it before. In November you are hiring a vote, not a best friend. But if a foreign terrorist army has written you a letter explaining which way it would like you to vote… maybe do the other thing.
My gunner would tell you the same. He has the scars to back it up.
But what do I know. I am only a medic who got blown up by Iran’s militias once already, and I am not about to let them pick my Congress too.
Mike Borowski is a medically retired Army combat medic with 23 years of service, including a combat deployment to Iraq, and a high school Anatomy and Physics teacher at a high-need Career Technical district in Northeast Ohio — where he also wrote and published the textbooks for both courses. He runs “Bski’s Classroom,” a platform dedicated to cutting through political noise with data, history, and the kind of blunt honesty that comes from someone who has seen both war and the American classroom up close.
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