
When the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on 28 February, some Iranians — exhausted after decades of life under the ayatollah's clerical regime and grief-stricken watching Tehran's security forces massacre thousands of protesters in January — had concluded that military intervention was the only remaining path to change.
Two months later, with the Islamic Republic still in place and a ceasefire agreement seemingly taking shape, many of those same people are no longer sure they were right.