diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 40a600caf82..c658e024d3a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## **[Unreleased]**
 
+- [#990](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/990) Default wasmer CLI to `run`.  Wasmer will now attempt to parse unrecognized command line options as if they were applied to the run command: `wasmer mywasm.wasm --dir=.` now works!
 - [#987](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/987) Fix `runtime-c-api` header files when compiled by gnuc.
 
 ## 0.10.2 - 2019-11-18
diff --git a/src/bin/wasmer.rs b/src/bin/wasmer.rs
index 82440b6d666..26afcc03947 100644
--- a/src/bin/wasmer.rs
+++ b/src/bin/wasmer.rs
@@ -848,7 +848,8 @@ fn get_compiler_by_backend(backend: Backend) -> Option<Box<dyn Compiler>> {
 }
 
 fn main() {
-    let options = CLIOptions::from_args();
+    let options = CLIOptions::from_iter_safe(env::args())
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| CLIOptions::Run(Run::from_args()));
     match options {
         CLIOptions::Run(options) => run(options),
         #[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]