Iran (MNN) — Conflict has spiraled across the Middle East after Saturday’s US-Israeli strikes killed top officials across Iran, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (Wikimedia Commons)
But Lana Silk with Transform Iran says there’s more to be done before real change will come to Iran.
“It’s not enough just to take the very cream at the top off Iran’s leadership. It’s a very vast network of leadership with multiple factions,” she says. “A lot of people still have a vested interest to continue the same cause that Iran has had since before [this weekend].”
Since Saturday, Iran has fired retaliatory strikes against Israel and against US assets in at least seven other nations. Silk wonders if that was a miscalculation on Iran’s part, “because what has happened now is that any potential sympathy from Arab nations towards Iran, all of that’s been wiped out.”
But targeted strikes from any nation could become something much larger.
“I don’t think anyone really wants to engage in a regional war —I’m speaking about the Arab nations that have been pulled in here—but it’s not going to take a lot,” Silk says.
“Even though Iran’s not been targeting interests beyond American bases in these countries, of course there’s been debris and fallout.”
Still, Silk hopes for something other than a few exchanged strikes that are called “good enough.” “That’s a version of what happened in June with the 12-day war, and [it] put the Iranian people in even greater difficulty,” she says. “But I’m pleased to hear that there’s commitment to see this thing through. So now we watch and wait to see what the Americans and Israelis will do next, and how the Iranians will retaliate.”
Azadi Square, Tehran, Iran (Stock photo courtesy of Erfan Ro via Unsplash)
Transform Iran’s team has been praying for change in Iran for years.
“Thankfully, our leaders and founders had the foresight decades ago to be thinking toward this day. We have been talking about the call that they had in 1988: The Lord said, ‘Iran will open again, and I need you to prepare the church for that day,’” says Silk. “By God’s grace, that’s what we’ve been doing. So really, we’re at the last stages of what we have already been doing for many, many years.”
Pray for Transform Iran as their ministry conversations change from the long-term to the imminent.
“There are going to be a lot of very, very broken, hurting people — physically, as well as emotionally, mentally, spiritually. Our first call will be to love them and to bind up the brokenhearted, as it says in Isaiah 61,” Silk says.
“Pray for a quick and decisive end, and this righteous transition of leadership, that we will move from this brutal, oppressive dictatorship to a democracy.”
Header photo: Iranians rally in Tbilisi, Georgia and worldwide voicing support for the United States and Israel, March 1, 2026 (Photo courtesy of MNN).
