It is safe to say if I was part of the Iranian Regime I would be packing my stuff to go. Iran's FM made a last ditch effort yesterday to try and meet over the protests but President Trump announced that they had been canceled and encouraged the protesters to keep going saying "help is on the way."
Compared to recent protests this one has been much much much deadlier from just the numbers that have come out so far which are expected to rise.
At least 1,850 protesters have been killed, according to estimates from the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
U.S. broadcaster CBS is reporting that the killing has hit 12,000 with up to 20,000 killed. These are unfathomable numbers and the fact that the protests have continued show how strong the protests truly are.
Unlike previous widespread protests these have only gather in strength and spread across the nation even with the brutal crackdown. A large part of this has been the deployment of Starlink by groups protesting to keep in contact. While the Regime is now using military grade jammers to knock Starlink offline but with information, videos, and pictures continuing to flow out it hasnt had the same effect that prior internet shut offs have had.
In a move that is only going to further supercharge the protesters Iran is moving to start executing protesters who were arrested just days ago starting tomorrow. If the Regime thinks that this is going to help stop the protests they are ignoring history and how protests work. This has rapidly moved so fast the last week or so that executions are only going to invigorate people to protest more.
I sympathize with Iranians' situation, but with all due respect, it is hard to believe Trump wants to "help" after the years of economic sanctions that he has imposed on their country.
Trump doesn't want to "help", but if he can do a quick show of force that makes him look strong and doesn't bog down the US military in a prolonged campaign, I believe he will take it. And I believe some Iranians would welcome it.
Thats a big if, especially for a president who campaigned on ending wars.
knowing several Iranians, i believe your second assumption is accurate, even though the only thing they agree with Trump on is their hatred of the mullahs.
When people start to come together based on shared principles and not hatred then we might see an end to this violence.
He campaigned on never ending wars and the wars he was going to end were Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Hamas. He has laid the option on the table for military strikes against Iran from his first term. For him if he could topple the Regime it would be a historical event that would undo what happened under Jimmy Carter's watch.
Claiming this is unrelated is either really naive or really disengenuous.
Uh.... What? He said he would get the hostages home and end it. He got almost all the hostages home and dramatically scaled back the entire war. He got buy in from Gulf States.
This war started in 2023. He spent 2024 on it because the Democratic Party became hesitant on Israel support. Its you who is naive and doesnt know what is going on because elections were won and lost with the Jewish Vote in places like New York.
I’ve thought that regime was toast before.
A combination of misinformation and not really understanding what their vulnerabilities are makes it easy to be wrong.
The dropping of any pretense of desiring peace by both the US and Israel is what makes me think this time could be different.
In that case, there’s another assumption that the US is capable of swiftly toppling this regime.
Its the first time we are seeing this size AND everyone chanting death to the Regime while praising the Shah. Not to mention the fact Iran has admitted to their soldiers and police getting killed and building burning its wildly different than before.
Iran's Regime was able to run on the fear of their military till Israel and the US embarrassed them and just gutted them during the 12 day war. The military took a huge blow and the people feel embolden.
Plus they are still running out of water.....
Another war from "no new wars" Trump.
This is likely why Charlie Kirk was killed. He advocated heavily against the Iran bombing by the US in summer of 2025. He was largely responsible for the fact that it was relatively limited.
Now he's out of the picture, and Israel and the neocons are having their way.
Military strikes are not wars. They never were wars and to think that Trump has started any wars is just not understanding what a war is and what it entails.
Military strikes are absolutely acts of war. Pretending otherwise is silly and I don't think you'd extend your definition to another country striking the US.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?def_id=18-USC-1479682157-1415921654