While absorbing the military details of the largely one-sided strikes on Iran's odious leadership, we shouldn't forget what this is all about: Liberating the Iranian people from the rule of a gang of murderous Bronze-age barbarians. That's happening; as we noted earlier on Sunday, the Islamic Republic has already set up a new leadership council, but the members of that council are going to be looking over their shoulders for American and Israeli missiles. Sooner or later, it looks like this is going to happen.
The Iranian people, at home and abroad, are celebrating, and not even the liberal legacy media can fail to take note of it. Two weekend stories stand out. The first was on CBS Evening News, with host Tony Dokoupil:
CBS reports on the reactions of the Iranian people: "It's not 'death to Israel' and 'death to America.' It's 'thank you' and 'a new day dawning'... It's the Iranian people that have been telling me over and over and over again, 'We want this.'" pic.twitter.com/IIsSr1KrT9
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 1, 2026
Speaking on the death of the Supreme Leader, Mr. Dokoutil asks his guest:
The Iranian people, what are you hearing from them tonight, we know they're celebrating, what's the feeling?
Middle East reporter Courtney Kealy:
It's a terrible dissonance that they had to choose war over a regime. But they were willing to do it. Thank you Donald Trump, thank you Benjamin Netanyahu, thank you America, it's not death to America after they killed the leader, the Americans and the Israelis did it, it's not death to Israel, it's not death to America, it's thank you. It's a new day dawning. But, very early days. Very, very early days. So we'll have to see what comes, but the Iranian people that have been telling me over and over, and over again, we want this. We're not regimeists, we're not Islamic. I don't even say "Oh my God" to my Iranian friends, because they don't want God to be any part of this.
Courtney Kealy is correct about one key thing: It's very early in this exercise yet, and there are all kinds of ways this could go sideways. But we can understand the Iranian people's joy at what they perceive as their liberation.
Next, CNN weighs in:
Iranian-American Moj Mahdara: "It is imperative the Democrat Party wake up and get past their dislike of President Trump... This will be like ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall. This is a transformational moment for humankind." pic.twitter.com/cs13sSXD2v
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 1, 2026
State of the Union Host Dana Bash is speaking with Iranian Diaspora Collective members Moj Mahdara and Milad Alami.
Moj Mahdara: It is imperative the Democratic Party wake up and get past their dislike of President Trump, President Trump, and their feelings of their national conflicts going on. This is about national security. This is about what it possible in the Middle East. This is about being a good neighbor, a good partner towards the Gulf States and what their aspirations are. This is about supporting the people of Venezuela, this is about dismembering our relationship with, uh, well not dismembering but resetting our relationship with China. Right now 55 percent of the oil production that Iran produces goes to China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine? You want to end that war? You have to... There is no getting around dismembering this Islamic republic. It is non-negotiable. It is not a want to have. They have to have it. And not just for the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the Iranian people. We know this government better than anyone else. When you dismember and decapitate this regime, you are going to see a change in the Middle East, in Venezuela, in China, in Ukraine, and I think quite frankly their ideology has really... it's caused a lot of problems for us worldwide. We need to take it seriously, and I think at this point we have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like ending the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall. This is a transformational moment for humankind. For security, and as an American, as an American, this is in our interest. It is. So, I am a Democrat. I have been a huge Democrat. I am incredibly disappointed with my party. I do not see myself in them at this moment.
It's a safe bet that Moj Mahdara has plenty of company in that last statement right now.
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The historic and humanitarian aspects of this cannot be ignored any longer, not even by the most Trump Derangement Syndrome-raddled purveyors of buncombe in the legacy media. History is being made in the Middle East today, and if the Islamic Republic is toppled, it will change the face of the world for generations to come. And those generations to come will know that it was President Donald John Trump who made this decision, who pushed the button, so that the United States and our ally Israel could put paid to this vicious, barbaric, repressive regime once and for all.
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