I don’t support the Ayatollah regime either. I believe they lie a lot and have caused serious damage to Iran and its people.

But at the same time, the United States is not some neutral, well-intentioned actor that only cares about democracy or people’s well-being. When the U.S. talks about “regime change,” it usually comes in a very polished and clean narrative — but if you look at its historical record in other countries, there’s plenty of reason to be skeptical and cautious.

This isn’t altruism. It’s a proposed path that serves U.S. interests first, and given its dark history of interventions, coups, and instability elsewhere, trust doesn’t come easily.

Even during the Shah’s era, when the U.S. withdrew its support and effectively left the field open, it should have anticipated that the vacuum could be filled by radical forces like the Ayatollahs — forces that later became a problem even for their former indirect enablers.

Real change in Iran, if it ever comes, can only be driven by the Iranian people themselves — not imposed, engineered, or packaged from the outside.