“The last thing I want to see, is the Iranian people put their lives on the line thinking the U.S. will swoop in and rescue them. If they were given hope, and that didn’t happen, it would be a betrayal of sorts.”
the other side of the coin is that the iranian govt may be given hope that the US won’t intervene and are emboldened to get even tougher on the protesters.
That’s a valid observations.