There have been any number of authoritarian regimes since the 1930s and the US has cherry picked which ones are 'good' (most right-wing South American juntas) and which ones are 'bad' (most left-wing administrations anywhere), so let's not pretend that the US's actions in Iran have much to do with a philosophical dislike of authoritarianism. The world has managed to live with Iran - albeit uncomfortably at times - since 1984 so what's changed? If as you say, it is the possibility that Iran now has enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon then the question must be asked, 'How did it get to this stage?' Imo a significant contributory factor was Trump withdrawing from JCPOA, an agreement which according to the independent monitoring authority was succeeding in its' objectives e.g. to prevent Iran from developing weapons grade uranium. This appears to be something that Trump supporters are unwilling and/or unable to acknowledge.
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