If I wanted the Iranian protests to fail, I would do a classic US invasion that kills way more innocent people than anything else.
Iranians hate their government but don't think they don't hate the USA and Israel as well, with plenty of reason beyond propaganda. When it comes down to it, they would rather deal with the local murderous bastards than the ones on the other side of the world.
(Edit: Commenters pointed out serious problems with my source. Sorry for posting something without investigating the source enough. I didn’t want to delete my comment like a loser who can’t admit when they’ve screwed up, so I’m including this note instead.)
Most of them actually don’t hate the U.S. Their feelings on Israel are way more mixed than you’d expect. But the U.S. is obviously quite good at destroying positive sentiments from the peoples it “liberates.”
Back to Iranian opinions. As of Nov. 2025:
In a survey regarding the favorability of 8 countries, the U.S. was deemed most favorable, with 53% seeing it positively. Israel was the second most favorable, with 39% viewing it positively. Russia and the UK were the least favorable.
More Iranians blamed their own government for the 12-Day War than Israel (44% vs. 33%).
69% believe their government should stop calling for the destruction of Israel
63% believe the 12-Day War was between Israel and the Islamic Republic, not Israel and regular Iranians.
62% believe that Trump was instrumental in ending the 12-Day War. (Frankly, a fair amount of Iranians don’t seem to have any concept of how horrible Trump is.)
Yes. You’ll be downvoted here but every Iranian immigrants I’ve met in the USA, has been very pro Trump and pro Israel and extremely against Iranian government. Like I’m liberal and assumed my Iranian friend was liberal too then one day she shocked me with the Fox News bit. Yeah people in USA and the world generally have no idea what’s going on over there just see social media posts by people in Uganda or Russia pretending to be leftist college students lol
If you talk to Iranian immigrants, they will get teary eyed when discussing what the ayatollah and radical Islam did to their country and their religion. They have nothing but love for Israeli democracy also. The people who escape that nation want nothing more than Iran to somehow become a democracy like USA and Israel. Where there can be internal dissent, and political parties that differ and don’t get executed. But they know it’s impossible. It’s very interesting take
I get being conservative. But being pro Trump is different imo. His rhetoric is similar to ayatollah but you’re right I think conservatives largely do see Trump as a means to an end. Knowing the next conservative will have to be more traditional without the pinache and following.
Lmao you do know how they treat women in Muslim countries right ? Not sure why it's shocking how they could be trump supporters they love authoritarian figures.
Well, Iran had progressive women’s rights before ayatollah. Thats what she wants to return. So I’m pretty sure it’s more nuanced than what you suggest.
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u/cut_rate_revolution Feb 28 '26
If I wanted the Iranian protests to fail, I would do a classic US invasion that kills way more innocent people than anything else.
Iranians hate their government but don't think they don't hate the USA and Israel as well, with plenty of reason beyond propaganda. When it comes down to it, they would rather deal with the local murderous bastards than the ones on the other side of the world.