And you think the US, now currently sliding into authoritarianism itself, will install an enlightened democracy upon the Iranians?

This is WW3 in slow motion. The goal is to takeover Eurasia and contain the Russian-Chinese alliance by eating away at the edges and removing all unaligned or hostile energy sources.

So how do the recurring airstrikes help the protesters?

> 30,000 in 2 days - half the 2-year death toll of Gaza ; With no artillery , air-strikes or heavy weapons, without million-man armies facing off in pitched battles, without health system collapsing with 100s of thousands of injuries in 48 hours, photos or satellite imagery of mass graves and bodies littering the streets

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.