[orwin]

Yeah, that's exactly what people against this war say, I don't know why your straw man them. Iran regime killed 7k people over a month and a half, and imprisoned 30k. Iran is almost at US level when we count population percentage in prison, and well, well beyond when we count execution, with an average of 600 a year (when Texas only had 600 in 50 years). This still isn't a great reason to declare war. MBS regime killed well over 70k over the last 14 years, and those are exhaustion death. His regime makes slaves work until death, which, in my opinion, is way, way, waaaay worse than dieing from a bullet, and has the same execution rate than Iran (a bit more). I still don't call for an attack in Saoudi Arabia.

And if the goal was to overthrow the Mollahs and the IRGC, why not wait for Khomenei natural death and avoid martyring him? The IRGC is tightly tied to the Khomenei clan, and no Khomenei main branch member is a Mollah, so the succession would have been a disaster under normal circumstances. The US war just robbed Iran a chance at a natural regime change.