Irish Examiner view: Regime change in Iran may herald even more violence and suffering

It may be described in the reassuring rhetoric of liberation, but regime change rarely follows that tidy narrative 

A satellite image of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps headquarters, in Tehran on February 27, before they were extensively damaged by US/Israeli air strikes. Picture:Vantor/AP 

The language of “regime change” has long been wrapped in the reassuring rhetoric of liberation. Yet, the modern record of such interventions — particularly those driven or supported by Washington and its allies — tells a far grimmer story. 

If the present confrontation between the US, Israel, and Iran moves in that direction, history offers little reason for optimism about what would follow.