Nationwide protests erupted in Iran on December 28, 2025, evolving into the largest uprising since the 1979 Revolution, driven by deep anger against the dictatorship. Demonstrations spread to over 200 cities across all 31 provinces, with protesters demanding the end of the Islamic Republic, met with intense security crackdowns and thousands of murders.
The vast majority of Iranians are clearly desperate for freedom from the tyranny of the Iranian Republican Guard army and secret police. The only reason they aren’t free right now is that they have no gun rights thus are completely helpless in the face of tyranny. Iran has the strictest gun control laws in the world. Iranians will never be free without outside help.
Democrats in America have loudly proclaimed “No Kings” and their supposed support for democracy, so do they support the US attacks on Iran? Democrats in the US hate Trump even more than they hate real dictators and true evil, so they are opposing the war.
I am a libertarian and mostly an isolationist, so I probably would not have directly attacked Iran like Trump did. And yes, this war breaks a campaign promise of Trump. But now that we are in the war, the worst mistake we could make is to only go halfway on killing the regime. Leaving angry and wounded dictators in charge in Iran and giving them control of the Strait of Hormuz is a nightmare outcome. We need to put troops on the ground and finish the job. Sending the same size army that we used to crush Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq will easily do the job. If we arm Iranian expats around the world and have them arm the millions that protested against the regime, the war can be brought to a swift and successful end.