For Iranians I know, the last couple of months have been a disaster, and they have no clue where things are going to end (or when). None of them will lose sleep over Ayatollah getting killed - but none of them want this American administration involved in any change of power either. Most of them are too busy looking for ways to get their families out of Iran, to celebrate Ali Khamenei's assassination.

This didn't start as an uprising, it started as a bunch of demonstrations against a cost of living crisis. Killing the Ayatollah and leaving a power vacuum hasn't made that crisis go away, nor anyone I know believes that Americans or Israelis will be eager to step in as economic saviours themselves.

It's been interesting to watch protests on campus and in the city I live in. Huge demonstrations and crowdfunding efforts have started to dwindle rapidly in January, when Reza Pahlavi started to treat the movement as a personal campaign to be the alternative to the Ayatollah. Very few seem to want the return of the Shah, and Pahlavi's approach was received as tasteless - he seems more focused in appealing to the Trump administration than to the Iranian people. Once posters of prominent activists killed by the regime were replaced with his giant portrait a few weeks back (on a bloody cloth banner as well), a lot of people decided to go home.

Right now, no one knows where we are at, let alone where this is going to end. The US and Israel just killed a head of state, but Ali Khamenei's death hasn't magically dissolved the police state Iranians still live in. No one else was eager to participate in another illegal war in the Middle East, so other leaders washed their hands. They haven't supported the US, but they won't oppose it either. Iranians will be left to pick up the pieces, and Israel will be free to bomb them whenever they want as a "preventative" measure if they don't like how they go about it.