British-Iranian in Teesside says two-week ceasefire brings uncertainty
World leaders have reacted with relief to the news the US, Israel and Iran have agreed to a two week ceasefire
A British-Iranian in Teesside says the two-week ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran is bringing uncertainty.
The re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz will allow for the safe passage of tankers through the waterway.
World leaders have reacted positively to the news of a ceasefire in Iran.
President Trump announced the deal yesterday, just 90 minutes before his own deadline, where he'd threatened to bomb the country's power plants.
Both sides are now claiming victory.
Soroush Sadeghzadeh, who has lived in Teesside for over 20 years after fleeing Iran due to religious persecution, said: "In my personal opinion, the only solution is really for the current government to stand down and leave, but they're not going to do that. And having lived in that country, being brought up there, and knowing the way that they work. So the only solution for the people of Iran is for the government to be overthrown.
"47 years of terror and chaos, of course, has shown that they cannot be trusted. So with these two weeks of ceasefire, I wouldn't be surprised if they break the conditions and again cause the war to continue. But overall, the wasted resources of a wealthy nation on unnecessary stuff simply based on their own ideology.
"We had messages of disappointment, feeling loss, of not knowing what to do, or feeling uncertain. So it's not just people within Iran, but those in the region. Because you could see that the current regime, that's held Iran captive for the past 47 years, has started bombing the neighbouring nations as well. So we are worried, and not just about people in Iran, but also about those in the region.
"Since the message of the ceasefire, many are hopeless, many have lost hope, many are feeling uncertain, particularly now that many have been killed high up in the government. The people are thinking that the work has been left unfinished, and now they are again back in the place where they were, but even wasn't right from the beginning.
"Some are still hopeful because 47 years of terror and chaos that the current government has caused in the region and on a global scale has shown that they cannot be trusted. So many people are thinking that eventually they will break the conditions of the ceasefire and things will go back to how they were.
"It just shows the depth of the terror that people have experienced, because nobody really likes war, but for people to ask foreign military to come to their rescue and bomb their own nation, it just tells you of the depth of the darkness that has really overtaken the nation, has taken the nation captive over the past 47 years.
"I just want to ask people in this nation not to take the freedom that we have for granted and use it to be the voice of the voiceless, particularly the people within Iran at the moment. So if you know Iranian friends or if you are able to have access to their voices in one way or another, please be their voices and speak up on their behalf."