A quick read of the history shows Iran has a pretty solid precedence for murdering their own people in Mass.
The changed variables seem to be an increase in US and Israeli interest in further hamstringing Iran. And also the ability for the Iranian people to get the message out through new technologies.
As for the US course of action I think we should just keep observing. Let their own people do the damage for for once.
Without outside intervention though I don't think that Iranian regime* can hold on to the reigns much longer. Assuming they're looking for an assist from their allies
I wouldn't gloss past how much British, America, fucked with their democratic government, and replaced with someone that supported them and also killed people. Sigh...Iran's cureent situation is the u.s. and British own doing...
A minor point - the outside intervention you are referring to here is aid/support/intervention from Russia and China (noting the assumed outside intervention, in Iran, would be the US, which clearly wants regime change).
If mass protests erupted in the U.S. with thousands killed, we wouldn’t accept Russia or China threatening airstrikes on New York to stop executions. That asymmetry suggests this isn’t really about humanitarian concern, but about exploiting instability in a state labeled the enemy. Trump's demand is very unusual. There are a lot of things we simply do not know yet.
Preach
This post was edited by Vaatu on Jan 23 2026 08:39am