Iran's Affairs
The future of the Iranian people should be only for Iranians to decide. Since I am not Iranian I'm not going to say anything more about that.
But
I will point out the bizarre insistence of Western media in pretending the current government is somehow run by non Iranians. Whatever else you may think about the Ayatollahs, they are indigenous to Iran and supported by millions of Iranians1. In a situation where millions of people support a government and millions oppose it, I can only hope that the people find a way to reconcile their differences without violence and without external interference.
As an external observer, I don't feel any hesitation in talking about the very blatant external interference Iran has been faced with as high ranking officials from both Israel and the US publicly cheer on the protestors and even promise assistance2. This accomplishes nothing more than delegitimizing the protestors as these two countries have no hesitation in supporting tyrannies as long as it serves their own purposes with no care for the people in the region3. Add to that images of burning mosques and it makes the situation look even more like the opening moves of an invasion rather than a popular revolt. The danger this puts the protestors in goes without saying.
And the most egregious foreign interference comes from the crippling economic sanctions foisted on Iran by the USA and its Yankee Bloc allies which has caused immense suffering for the people in the country.4 If Americans really wanted to alleviate the suffering of the Iranian people, they could just lift the sanctions. Since they don't the unavoidable question becomes what Americans are really after.
The Western habit of moralizing on how a country they are suffocating should behave is the height of hypocrisy and is like lecturing a person you're starving on how to behave. The problem isn't in the reaction, the problem is in the starvation.
In May of 1996 the US ambassador to the UN, Madeline Albright was confronted by the death of a half a million children caused by harsh US sanctions on Iraq and she responded by saying she thought it was worth it5.
You don't have to be a fan of either Saddam Hussein of that time or the Ayatollahs of today to recognize how evil a sentiment that is. That American evil was appeased by the world and that has only leads to more evil from the US in the three decades since.
The people of Iraq did not deserve what the US did to them, and neither do the people of Iran, and Palestine deserve what the US is doing to them as we speak.
Tragically then it’s the decision of Americans that will continue to dictate the future of Iran rather than the decisions of any Iranian. The only exception to this terrible situation is if America decides to back away from meddling in the region and sticks to it.
This can only lead me to the conclusion that US isolationism will be good for the future of, not only Iranians, but all the peoples of the world, Americans included (as I believe it is good for a people to retreat from evil acts).
All opinions my own, in the end only God knows best.