We’ve been hearing for weeks, even months, from the White House that the Islamic Republic of Iran was about to sign a deal. True or not, for some reason President Trump’s most recent statements have been taken more seriously. The stock market is up, oil prices are down and some sort of a deal may indeed be announced imminently.

As I read the terms of the proposed deal, whether true or not, my heart breaks because the outcome of the deal will be deadly. There are truly no good terms of the deal being reported, but as much as the terms are bad, the most deadly part is the deal itself.

Unfortunately, any deal will be dead on arrival. I spent most of my life living under the Islamic Republic, and most of my last year in Iran in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison under threat of a death penalty and being executed at any moment. My “crime?” Converting to Christianity. Not very enlightened to say the least from a regime in control of the lives of 90 million Iranians, and threatening hundreds of millions more. As much as they tried to force me to deny my faith, I would not bend. That is how you make a deal with the Islamists, not by negotiating. By defeating them. Today I am blessed to live freely in the United States and proudly as an American citizen. In America I celebrate unparalleled freedom, the kind of freedom for which 90 million Iranians have sacrificed so much, only to be shot down literally by the evil and brutal Islamist regime.

As nice as it sounds – that the Islamic Republic regime may commit on paper to give up all their nuclear material and never have nuclear weapons – having lived under the regime and suffered its misogyny, seeing my friends and loved ones, including my husband, tortured and executed, I know that no deal they put their name to will ever be honored. I know that before the ink dries they will be plotting their next move with the ultimate goal of hastening their extremist Islamic takeover of the world, the destruction of the United States, Israel and the West – from the outside and from within. I know they will dig their nuclear facilities deeper under the vast Iranian mountain ranges to conceal their intentions and the ability to get to the weapons themselves.

While President Trump may indeed be the master of the deal, I know no deal they sign will ever be honored. That is the first deadly flaw of the deal: To think these are rational actors and will approach any deal in a way that is honorable or sincere is mistaken.

When it comes to self-preservation, their only goal is to do anything necessary, even signing a deal which makes it seem like they are abandoning their decades-long fantasy of having nuclear weapons. When it comes to self-preservation, they will lie at every turn and manipulate even the Dealmaker in Chief.

But mark my words, with a deal like this, in my lifetime, they will be back in business so that a future U.S. president will have to deal with the consequences of this deal, and an Islamic Republic that is either closer to achieving nuclear weapons than they ever have been, or will have actually done so. The thought frightens me to death.

The other deadly flaw of the deal is the abandonment of the Iranian people. In January of this year, the Islamic Republic regime executed as many as 50,000-60,000 Iranians in cold blood, in just two days. These were not foreign enemies, but Iranian citizens simply protesting for change, for freedom, to live and have a future not under the heel of Islamic extremists who hijacked their country and who have been the singular source of the greatest terror network around the world for nearly half a century.

Making matters worse, President Trump actually gave Iranians hope when he sent a message encouraging the Iranian protesters to take to the streets and take over the institutions of the regime, stating “help is on the way.”

Unfortunately, that help never came, even during the 40 days of joint American and Israeli attacks on the regime, weakening it but not bringing it down. Make no mistake, the only deal that can be made is unilateral surrender, and the elimination of the regime. Anything short of that will continue the 47-year suffering of the Iranian people for generations to come. It will mean the regime can act with a free hand to execute tens of thousands at one time, or arrest, torture and execute tens of thousands more, one by one, out of the public eye.

It will mean that when they arrest women like my former cellmate and best friend, Shirin Alam Hooli, before executing them they will torture them brutally and rape them because under their perverted Islam, it is unjust to execute a virgin. So they seek their justice through the worst form of misogyny, torture and dehumanization.

I weep for the current generation which had hope and suffered so much these past several months and decades. I weep for future generations of Iranians, who will grow up as I did, with brothers becoming masters over their sisters, corrupting the thought of young people and their attitudes that will shape their lives unnaturally for generations to come.

A third deadly flaw of the deal relates to Israel and the West. A year ago, I had the privilege of writing a thank-you note to pilots who carried out the strike on Evin Prison administrative buildings where I was incarcerated. I’ve had the opportunity to speak to Israeli soldiers and civilians many times and apologize for their suffering at the hands of the regime that hijacked my beautiful country of birth. If there are any people in the world who understand and have experienced the suffering of decades of Islamic Republic terrorism outside of Iran more than anyone, it is the people of Israel, who simply pray to live in peace. But as much as generations of Iranians have suffered, also generations of Israelis have suffered. I have met them, I have prayed with and for them, and I weep that future generations will suffer the same as their parents and grandparents have.

I pray that President Trump will not be fooled, that there will be no deal short of complete surrender and an end of the Islamic Republic. Only that can ensure peace, that Iran can rejoin the family of nations, and that the outcome will not be decades more of suffering at the hands of an Islamic death cult.