# United States and Israel are bombing Iran {for current/ongoing events, past/future have specific threads} **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump, iran-strikes-2026\ **Created:** [February 28, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-states-and-israel-are-bombing-iran-for-current-ongoing-events-past-future-have-specific-threads/1028071 "2026-02-28T07:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 220
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-states-and-israel-are-bombing-iran-for-current-ongoing-events-past-future-have-specific-threads/1028071/220 "2026-03-01T16:48:57Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > There were quite literally _millions_ of Iranians protesting the Regime last month By the way, I don’t want to discount this. From the reporting I’ve seen, a lot of Iranians are overjoyed over the death of the Ayatollah. And I’m among those who really like the Iranian people, and know that they are open to a progressive democratic society. I’m just too dumb to understand how a bunch of citizens, who otherwise have jobs and lives, are supposed to coalesce - Voltron-style - into a functioning government. Especially if the country isn’t going to be invaded by ground forces (something that may not be logistically feasible: Iraq had a population of about 25 million people in 2003; Iran has about 90 million). And my biggest concern is that the current American/Israeli administrations haven’t sufficiently planed for the future, either. At least not to a serious degree. ETA: I can’t read the crown prince’s editorial. Does he have any specific plans? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-states-and-israel-are-bombing-iran-for-current-ongoing-events-past-future-have-specific-threads/1028071)._