You have so many excellent posts on here. My wife is from Iran, we have been married for 35 years. I have relatives in Iran, who we have been unable to contact for 10 days. The situation there is pretty dire, with heaven knows how many thousands of protestors have been killed, Because of the regime internet blackout, it has enabled them to put out pro regime propaganda, but at the same time, there is a trickle of news from the protesters coming out. I am not happy about the way Trump and Pahlavi have been encouraging people to go out on the streets, to get slaughtered and now they have seemingly left them out to dry. I have also been disgusted by left wing sites and blogs over here - Craig Murray for instance, saying that these are not real anti regime protests, simply outside interference by the US and Israel. People don't seem to realise, that in Iran, ordinary people don't have weapons, so they can't fight back. This isn't like 1979, when the US/UK helped the Shah into exile, the Khomeini came out of exile in France and the military very quickly stopped firing against the people and themselves joined the revolution. That isn't going to happen this time, because the regime is so entrenched, the IRGC so huge and the backup militias such as the Basij are totally evil.
Iran needs outside assistance quickly and I don't know where that help is coming from, because it isn't like the "old days", when you had UN peacekeeping forces, there doesn't seem to be any co-ordination between willing states to stop this.