Notice those PDF Iranians who not so secretly hoping for this war before this war started on Iran vanished. Their hopes in the January protests were based on faulty assumption that the protests were not inspired by outside forces. One even was cheering for the Shah and said something like widespread support in Iran for the Crown Prince. But it was clear to many here that the protests were foreign backed and to me it was clear that some kind of Plan B was going to be implemented when the protests were crushed. Our posts are still here to be seen from the pre war weeks.
The goal was the destruction of Iran and that goal remains, no matter who'd be in power in Iran.