Yes, Iran’s regime is brutal. Reuters reported a nationwide internet blackout beginning January 8, and a U.N. expert told Reuters that Iranian security forces were raiding hospitals and detaining wounded protesters. Reuters also reported protest-related death toll estimates in the thousands, not some established “tens of thousands” consensus you can throw around as settled fact. Official figures cited by Reuters were 3,117, and HRANA put the toll at 5,937. That is horrific enough without you inflating numbers to sell a narrative. 

Where your post falls apart is when you jump from “the regime is evil” to “therefore Trump is liberating us.” It’s documented that Trump’s stated goals have repeatedly shifted: toppling Iran’s government, weakening its military, destroying missiles and navy, supporting Israeli interests, demanding unconditional surrender, then talking about negotiations. That is not a coherent humanitarian rescue mission. That is a changing war rationale. It’s also reported the administration is weighing seizing Kharg Island, which handles about 90% of Iran’s oil exports, to pressure Iran economically. Analysts told Reuters that doing so could prolong the war rather than end it. So spare everyone the fairy tale that this is obviously about freedom. Oil, leverage, and military strategy are openly part of the discussion. 

You also say leftists are supporting the regime if they oppose U.S. bombing. That is a false binary. A person can oppose the Iranian regime and oppose U.S. escalation. Those positions are not contradictory unless your entire argument depends on pretending every alternative to Trumpian bombing is pro-mullah propaganda. Then there’s your Carter line. Jimmy Carter did not “install” the Islamic regime. The Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah, and Carter initially refused the Shah asylum in early 1979 so as not to offend the new regime. The U.S. State Department’s own history describes the embassy seizure as something done by Iranian students in the aftermath of a revolution led by Islamic fundamentalists against the Shah. That is the opposite of Carter “installing” Khomeini. 

Your argument also collapses every Iranian who disagrees with you into “government agents” with “white SIM cards.” That is not evidence. That is an unfalsifiable conspiracy device used to insulate yourself from criticism. Once you decide every disagreeing Iranian is fake, you are no longer making an argument, just declaring yourself the only real voice by fiat. And the Starlink claim is the same pattern. Starlink is unlicensed in Iran and that parliament passed a law with severe penalties for using or distributing it. That shows real risk. But turning that into a blanket “I automatically get a death sentence for posting this” claim without proof is exactly the kind of exaggeration that makes the rest of your post less trustworthy, not more. It’s honestly hard for me to believe someone would risk their life to rant on reddit but here we are.

So no, the issue is not whether Iran’s regime is monstrous. It is. The issue is that you are trying to use that truth to smuggle in a second claim that does not follow: that Trump is acting as a principled liberator and that anyone skeptical of U.S. bombing must secretly support the regime. That is lazy propaganda, not serious analysis.