We want complete and pure peace around us and across the globe. But how can we achieve that? First: Iran must abandon its ambitions to dominate the world through the Wilayat Al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist). It must realize that its recruitment of militias — such as Hezbollah, the Houthis and all its affiliated armed factions in Iraq and elsewhere in the world — is what fuels bloodshed and takes the lives of those it refers to as the oppressed. Instead, Iran should join the caravan of development and societal progress to stand in the ranks of the rest of the world’s nations.