Threatening Iran "any way necessary" risks turning a real, economically rooted protest cycle into a foreign-policy project that discredits it and invites a brutal crackdown. Sanctions have already deepened hardship, and overt U.S.-Israeli backing feeds the regime's claim of foreign subversion, consolidating loyalist security forces. External strikes could spark regional war, kill civilians, and still leave the coercive state intact, shifting the cost onto Iranians.