
On the Other Hand: On Military Intervention in Iran
Background: During the final days of 2025, the Iranian currency, the rial, collapsed amid severe international sanctions, plunging the country’s economy into uncharted territory. Iranians responded by protesting en masse across all 31 provinces, with economic anxieties mixing with general discontent at the oppressive Islamic Republic regime that has governed the country since 1979. The government responded with equal determination, using mass violence to dispel the protests, leaving an estimated thousands dead in their wake. While US President Donald Trump promised support for the protesters and intimated US military action should the repression continue, there has yet to be any intervention at the time of writing, and the protests appear to have largely died out. Nonetheless, reports continue to spread that the White House is contemplating military action. This column








