It is by no means certain that the best thing that could happen for the many people in Iran now struggling for their freedom is for Donald Trump to bomb their country. Such a scenario is now perfectly feasible in a way that it was not even a year ago.
First, from what can be discerned and verified from outside, the scale of the protests is growing in size and scope – spreading across all classes and regions of the nation, and not just the big cities. There is now a sense of a popular movement gathering force, one that looks more capable of changing the country than previous uprisings ever did.
