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Having personally attended numerous protests in Iran, he states that the Iranian people have repeatedly begged for external intervention to end the brutality inflicted upon them by their government. The regime has reportedly massacred tens of thousands of protesters in recent weeks. The speaker draws a moral analogy: if someone you despise appears to intervene to stop a monster that has slaughtered your family, would you oppose them? This, he insists, is what some critics of the strikes are doing—essentially opposing action against a murderous regime.