@Nonilex He still believes the "spontaneous uprising" thing?
By chance, I was rewatching Curtis's documentary "HyperNormalisation" and in it I noticed where he said...
Instead of a violence born out of
political struggles for power,
it became replaced by a much
simpler image of an evil tyrant
at the head of a rogue state
who became more like an archcriminal
who wanted to terrorise the world.
All the politics and power dropped away.
The problem was just them and
their evil personalities.
And after 9/11, this led to a
new, and equally simple, idea.
That if only you could remove
these tyrannical figures,
then the grateful people of their country
would transform naturally into a democracy,
because they would be free of the evil.

Trump is still apparently waiting for the grateful people of Iran to rise up against the (still) tyrannical regime. I'm sure that destroying their civilian infrastructure is exactly what's needed to reassure them that the benevolent US regime has their backs... /s