blastingcap
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Ah, yes.
Snapshot™ reality.
Ignore the coup the US and UK organized in Iran in 1953.
Ignore that we installed a brutal dictator who ruled Iran and tortured Iranians for 26 years.
Now that we've done that...
Lights!
Camera!
Action!
1979! Iranian Sin!
(Oh, yeah, we're going to go ahead and need to ignore the US selling...Saddam Hussein... chemical weapons in the 1980s. You know, the chemical weapons he went ahead and used on Iranian soldiers and his own people).
And now! Ohhh, The entire country of Iran chants "Death to America". Or something.
(Oh, yeah, let's go ahead and add to the ignore list John McCain's "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" jingoism. Because, you know, we're practicing Snapshot™ history.)
Axis of Evil! Ahhh!
RUN!
Right. I love how reality is constantly ignored for US Empire Snapshot™ reality that allows us to project our military anywhere we want at any time because of "US Interests".
Quick!
Name the last war Iran started in the past 2000 years.
I'll wait here!
Don't be daft, Iran has had endless wars with the Ottomans over the past 2000 years, just for starters. Not all defensive.
More recently, Iran sends proxies like Hezbollah or Shia militias like the ones it funded and ordered to attack US troops. Iranian ammunition, weapons were literally traced to them; same as in Yemen now, where Iran smuggled money and weapons to the Houthis (albeit not to the degree the Saudis are claiming). The list goes on and on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism
If the US is like the schoolyard bully who beats you up with his own hands, then Iran is like the queen bitch who won't publicly dirty her own hands, but instead gets intermediaries to do her dirty work. That doesn't make Iran more noble at all.
Iran has also done its share of bombings, assassinations, etc. including the current Supreme Leader who personally ordered the assassination of Kurdish rivals. (Many people don't realize that the Iranian revolution was not an Islamic revolution, but a revolution driven by many factions. The Islamists murdered their rivals and consolidated power after the Shah was overthrown.) And to this day, the Iranian theocracy still ruthlessly suppresses minorities and supports the worst "religion" to ever grace the planet, a death cult of personality which cannot evolve thanks to the central tenets like infallible Mohammed, infallible Quran. Other religions can have Reformations; Islam cannot, because it is so literal and so chained to the ancient past (1400 years ago) via a book that you can't question, unlike the Bible which most scholars agree has been written and rewritten by mortals. It is possible for some religions to evolve. Islam is not one of them; it is an evolutionary dead-end.
Of course the US has blood on its hands too. I don't think people are ignoring US interference per se, just that it happened so long ago, and Iran has done a lot of harm since then, making it hard to sympathize with them.
If Iran won't stop chasing a nuke, the end result will be Saudi Arabia also arming itself with nukes. If suicidal religious Saudi nutcases successfully revolt and gain access to a nuclear arsenal, I hope their first target is Iran for not stopping its nuclear program in the early 21st century.
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