I was hoping the Iranian people would throw out the mullahs. Now that we are in I sure hope we can help the peaceful Iranians find peace. I worry that they are outnumbered by islamists. I don’t think they can have a successful democracy because the islamists would just vote the mullahs back into power.
Venezuela swapped out the top leader with folks working under a “do this or else” mandate
Mebe Iran got their version of that deal
Yes that was the hope in Afghanistan and Iraq too but it turns out they love their religion more than western style democracy. There’s a massive pro regime protests against MAGA/MIGA today in Iran so looks like the same scenario. Would have been nice to have learned our lessons from the first two expensive wars. Maybe third time is the charm.