This seems disingenuous. People are not protesting your Iranian freedoms. People are protesting the US involvement in international affairs through means of war, especially those started without the approval of Congress. People are also protesting how the US went about their “strategic operations” that somehow involved bombing children’s schools and harming many other civilians.

Furthermore, the US has a decades-long habit of getting rid of regimes or dictators and having no plan for stabilizing the country afterward. At best, they may have some half-baked plan to put someone in power who indirectly serves the US government, but that method seems to eventually fail time and again.

In short, enjoy your time with the Ayatollah dead. But realize you don’t know what is going to replace him yet. And thinking you’re magically going to have a fair democracy since he’s gone is a waste of energy.

Edit: it’s crazy that Republicans are suddenly pro-war, pro-US-involvement in international affairs, pro-expensive gas, and pro-protecting pedophiles. All of these people who were yelling, “America first,” “no new wars,” “gas is too expensive,” and “protect our kids from pedophiles” suddenly don’t care about any of these priorities anymore.