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I can't help but think the 'death to America' chants going away plus the end of Iranian funding for Islamic terror/Islamic based violence will help fight Islamophobic perceptions in the US. My entire life it's seemed like a very visible section of Islam wanted my country/the West destroyed which by extension has influenced my opinion of Islam. I think a secular Iran is going to improve the perception of Islam in the West. I feel like the US and Iran have been at low level war my entire life and that Iran by their actions/words have felt the same.

> I can't help but think the 'death to America' chants going away

With the recent actions of the US you can bet those chants won't go away for a long time.

Were they ever going away before? Like I said this has been going on my entire life. It has shaped my worldview, especially in relation to Islam.

> Were they ever going away before?

Was the US ever not meddling in middle Eastern affairs before? Just because the old strategy wasn't working doesn't mean double down on it and see if it sticks this time. Try something different, something that isn't certain to backfire!

The bombings will continue until sentiment about the USA improves.

Sentiment about the USA will worsen with every bomb.

And you think assassinating their leaders in an unjustified war and bombing school children and infrastructure will bring about those changes?

Who knows. This is all pointless idiocy extending from again what I feel has been Iran waging low level war against my country my entire life. I hate it all. What did Iran think would be the outcome if their attempt to assassinate Trump would have succeeded?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/03/trump-ass...

At this point Iran has killed/maimed/injured civilians in many of their neighboring countries for no purpose:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on...

and sadly Iranian schoolgirls have long been the victims of this low level war the Islamic theocracy has been waging in the name of Islam/Islamic morals:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/iran-security...

https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/child-detainees-in...

https://iranwire.com/en/society/60172/

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602031576

>What did Iran think would be the outcome if their attempt to assassinate Trump would have succeeded?

Most probably mass celebrations on the streets of America.

Sure, those things exist, but let's not pretend that modern war is remotely comparable to the Eastern Front of WW2.

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