There's next to no chance that whatever comes out of the end of this will be a "liberal democratic Iran government". Obama started a route in that direction with the lowered sanctions and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action from 2015. Iran having a democratic government doesn't really help the GOP war hawks so of course they trashed it. The same happened with North Korea in the 90s with the Agreed Framework that had some promise before GWB torpedoed it to please his oinking base.

I also think that nuclear powers mean regional stability. Ukraine gave up its nukes in the 90s and we saw what happened there.

> We better get a liberal democratic Iran government out of this.

> We better remove and halt nuclear powers for the rest of my life.

Neither of those things is a guaranteed outcome of this. Depending on who you ask, it's not even a likely outcome.

The IRGC remains the most powerful group in Iran. Probably a military junta is a more likely outcome, plus or minus a civil war to establish it.

Unfortunately, I think "Theocratic Iran with the bomb" is on the "good" side of the distribution of potential outcomes here.

> We better get a liberal democratic Iran government out of this.

I doubt it. US intervention seems to have a habit of creating weakened nations for its rivals to benefit from. In Iraq's case: Iran and in Iran's case maybe the Taliban in Afghanistan.

I'd be happy with the permanent removal of US bases from the Middle East.

The Middle East does not understand Democracy. It will just be another strong man in power. The diaspora is pushing for a new shah