Trump says, “If Iranian authorities start killing protesters, we’ll step in” but where the hell were you when Palestinians were being wiped out?

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Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Iran that nobody likes to say out loud.

We did not just wake up one morning and go, “Wow, Iran’s run by a bunch of hardcore religious nutjobs, how did that happen?” No. There was a long, stupid chain of events, and surprise, America has fingerprints all over it.

Back in the 1950s, Iran actually tried democracy. I know, shocking. They elected a prime minister, Mosaddegh, who had the insane idea of saying, “Hey, maybe Iran should control its own oil.” And the US and the UK went, “Absolutely not, champ.” So they helped overthrow him and put the Shah back in charge. Boom. Democracy gone. Dictator installed. Oil secured.

Now, the Shah modernised the country, sure. But he also ran a brutal police state. Torture, secret police, people disappearing. And because he was backed by the US, a lot of Iranians didn’t just hate the Shah. They hated everything associated with him, including Western influence.

So when the revolution came in the late 1970s, people didn’t just want the Shah gone. They wanted the whole system burned to the ground. And who stepped into that vacuum? The ayatollahs. Religious hardliners who promised justice, dignity, and independence. Spoiler alert, they delivered none of that.

So yeah, America didn’t install the Islamic Republic directly. But if you shove a country off a cliff, you do not get to act surprised when it lands in a pile of religious authoritarianism.

Fast forward to today. Iran is run by clerics with absolute power. Morality police beating women over headscarves. Protesters shot. Internet shut down. Religion used as a weapon, not faith, not spirituality, just control. Same old playbook, different century.

Now Donald Trump comes out and says, “If they start killing protesters, we’ll step in.” And here’s the part that’s going to annoy everyone. For once, I actually like the idea behind that statement. If a government is slaughtering its own people in the streets, the world should not just shrug and change the channel.

But then comes the part where trust completely falls apart.

Because if you are suddenly the global sheriff who storms in when protesters are being killed, I have a very reasonable question. Where the hell were you when Palestinians were being wiped out?

After the atrocity of October 7, which was horrific and undeniable, over 70,000+ Palestinians have now been killed, most of them civilians, most of them having absolutely nothing to do with that massacre. Entire families erased. Kids buried under rubble. Hospitals bombed. Aid blocked.

So where was the threat then?

Why no “If you keep killing people, we’ll step in” speech aimed at Israel?

Why no red line?
Why no “stop or else”?

And that right there is why I do not trust Trump’s motives. Because it starts to look less like moral outrage and more like selective outrage. It starts to feel like human rights only matter when they align with strategic interests.

If you are going to bomb Iranian officials for killing protesters, but you will not even threaten consequences when an ally does the same on a vastly larger scale, then let’s be honest about what this is. It is not about saving lives. It is about power, optics, and leverage.

And that is how you end up back at square one again.

Best case scenario? Iranians force change themselves. The system cracks from the inside. Power fractures. A slow, messy, imperfect transition happens, but it has legitimacy. No foreign puppet strings. No freedom delivered by missiles.

Worst case? Crackdowns intensify, thousands die, the regime hardens, or America barges in like a drunk uncle at a wedding yelling, “I’ve got this,” and somehow makes everything worse. Again.

And if the protests fail? Nothing magically improves. The anger just goes underground. It waits. It simmers. And next time, it explodes harder.
So yeah, this is the bit everyone hates. There are no clean heroes here. No magic interventions. Just decades of bad decisions, fear, manipulation, and religion weaponised for power.

If Iran ever gets free, it will not be because someone saved them. It will be because they fought their way out of a mess the world helped create, and hopefully this time, the rest of us stay the hell out of the way.