Should the US become involved in helping protesters in Iran?

Well exaclty I guess they are also sitting on shaky ground with oppressive regimes

However I wonder what citizens of those countries think when they see the people or Iran with signs for help from USA ?? don't they think why not our leaders ?

Cool. It just goes to show how little Trump thinks. Anyone else would make it clear.

Yes

This is why Trump thinks he's untouchable. People seem to think the US are the world's Police Force.

Throwing a few missiles into Iran will not get rid of the current regime.

That would require a sustained attack and a blockade but even then, with no get out for the regime, they will just stay and fight, they have no choice, no one will have them & atm the Iranian Army have said they promise to to stay loyal...

Look at Syria? the place was utterly destroyed before Assad fled.

Do you think Iranians can overthrow the regime without help?

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Yes of course the US should get involved, look how well that's worked in the Middle East over the years, in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Libya - remember the "Arab Spring", what could possibly go wrong...

In this case I think intervention is warranted, and ridding the world of current Iranian leadership would be a great thing.

The people of Gaza might have a half decent chance of a life with Hamas broke and broken.

Trump is a prick and a bully, and I hope he acts like both those things and cuts the head off the snake.

I don't give a shit about US/Israeli manipulation. MY children will be safer with these bastards destroyed.

Who should help @DeftGoldHedgehog?

The big issue is that if these protests don’t work (and it’s likely they won’t without help) that’s the the Iranian people screwed for years to come..

speaking to an Iranian friend who is terrified for her sister there she’d wish the US or any other govt would help inspite of motives. It’s tearing families apart. The parents don’t want her to protest as they are scared but they want radical change. The daughter wants to be part of radical change and this is common across the board.

so many people have died and disappeared. If this doesn’t work and the regime regains their grip a lot more people will disappear.

no idea of the answer but people are desperate.

Which of the other big powers, and their lovely leaders, would you choose to cosy up with?

Well the revolution appears to have been defeated again. Trump threatened a lot, but did nothing to help them.

Isn't the Muslim Brotherhood an offshoot of Hamas? I didn't mention Iraq.

Yeah because regime change in the Middle East always goes swimmingly when the US gets involved.
Revolution needs to come from the Iranian people. Not outside forces.

Really? the problems in Iran, Iraq, Libya & Gaza/West Bank are at least in part and sometime all as a result of right wing political & military interference.

You don't know your history.

Those calling for military action in Iran? what exactly? Trumps last strikes didn't even remove the Nuclear threat, the facilities are deep under ground, all he did was slow the process down.

Trump seems to think that a missile strike here or there will solve the worlds problems....

I don't know what the solutions are, ATM its probably unsolvable, its a huge country of 90m people, one of the worlds oldest countries, the West getting involved will lead to far more bloodshed & not solve anything, Iran's leaders know there is no way out, so will fight to the death.

They will be vilified either way. And sometimes over and above the actual regime violent regime oppressing the protestors.

@Userxyd he took out their nuclear stuff so I think they know he is serious look at Venezuela.

He said behind the scene they are desperate and negotiating. At the end of the day isn't this their business ?
The people in France and other revolutions had to do it themselves.

Apparnkty.aa usual many countries in the region would love Iran. To fall but they do nothing.usa can't win.

They were criticism for not helping the kurds when Sadam gassed them then when they did go in they were criistdedmn

Trumps been saying they’ll go in if the regime kills protesters- they’re killing hundreds of kids and young people and now Trumps changed his mind?? He’s got a duty to do what he said- he will have encouraged those protestors to think things are about to change, he’s got our back let’s go to the streets - he can’t abandon them now. The regime will be massively emboldened if he doesn’t go in and Trump will have made things infinitely worse.
Their blood is on his hands if he turns his back having prompted these protests - imagine the backlash from Iranians - and other supporters of the protesters. He’s got to do something now he’s started this.

This is possibly one of the most incorrect posts on here. For a start, there are no Iranian/Shia terrorist groups in Egypt or the Gulf states. Yes, they are influential in Yemen and Lebanon. I would also say that despite our MSM saying that Iran is highly active in Iraq, what they don't say, is that Iraq is by far a majority Shia country and the Baathist regime under Sadam Hussein treated them worse than the theocracy in Iran is treating its own citizens.

It may be in addition to the existing tariffs, I don’t think we know at this stage.

I’m no expert on the implications of high tariffs. But I believe they affect both countries economically- the US & the countries that are hit with high tariffs. Obviously Trump sees it as a punishment.

Iran are already in a proxy war in those countries through their funding of terrorism throughout the region. But yes, rich Arab countries should be doing more to promote stability in the region. Problem is they also hate each other. Its quite difficult to work out who hates who more. It is suspected that Iran provoked October 7th because Saudi were negotiating better relations with Israel so they wanted Israel to attack. If the Iranian regime falls many terrorist groups fighting in Lebanon and Egypt will lose their funding. We are busy cosying up to Qatar but who knows what they are doing. India is also wanting to make friends in the West but is also cosying up to Russia and Iran because they have issues with China and Pakistan so possibly pressure could be put on countries like India, Qatar and UAE to help out a bit with peace in their own region. The whole thing is a binfire.

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From AI. It always surprises me when the Hard Left allies with Islamists because apart from being Brown they are exactly this.