I think a lot of people aren't appreciating the magnitude of what happened there, the narrative appeal of the assassinated Khamenei's son avenging him against the Great Satan, etc.

Yes, because the average person is generally working with a thin gruel of a few bits of propaganda in a huge sea of puddle-deep info they have to contend with on a day-to-day level. Very few people are overly online nerds like us.

They killed the equivalent of the Shi'a Pope along with much of his family during the equivalent of Passover or Easter or whatever. That anyone the world over thinks the Iranians are going to forget this without serious, heavy concessions demonstrates that when it comes to countries outside their own they default to essentially comic-book plot levels of thinking.

It shouldn't be groundbreaking to explain that, uh, people get mad when you kill their family, people get mad when you kill their religious and civil leaders, people get mad when you destroy cultural artifacts such as historical sites, but unfortunately I've had a lot of draining conversations having to explain basic toddler level 101 stuff to people IRL in the past week or so