Iran began its current regime with a coup over the Shah of Iran in 1979, as the Iranian regime illegally took over the US embassy in their own country and held American prisoners for years. But the US allowed it and basically did nothing to punish them as they negotiated their release. God only knows what the US gave them in return for the release of those hostages, which only emboldened them. For you see, it was their position that both Israel and the US were "The Great Satan" of the world, therefore, fighting them with any means possible was justifiable and righteous, because they were just that evil. Since then, they have been chanting death to America and death to Israel pretty much every day of every year since. And many of you may agree and would like to assist them in destroying both Israel and America because they deserve it. Basically, it is the final and only answer to all the evils both countries have supposedly done to them and the world.
Oh, noes, they are saying MEAN THINGS about us.
Let's put this in reality. The Iranians elected a government that nationalized their oil wealth. The CIA overthrew that government and put the Shah in as a dictator. (Before that, he was a constitutional monarch with limited powers). For the Next 25 years, the Shah squandered Iran's oil wealth building himself palaces, while average Iranians had nothing to show for it.
The Iranians took hostages (at first radical students, but then the government got involved when the US raised the stakes by trying to invade) because the US let the Shah in for Cancer treatment. For the Iranians, they legitimately thought that we were gearing up to stage another coup against them.
The fact is, we've been punishing Iran for 47 years for picking a form of government we don't like.
But Iran was not a world power that could directly confront the US and Israel, so it used its oil revenue to fund terrorism against both powers by funding various proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis.
A few points here. The US has also armed "proxies" in the region. We funded the Muhajedeen in Afghanistan, encouraging radical Arabs to go there to fight the Soviets. Eventually, those radicals became Al Qaeda and bit us in the ass. We funded rebels in Libya and supported them with Air power. They turned around and bit us in the ass. We armed Saddam during his war with Iran from 1981 to 1989. He turned around and bit us in the ass.
So you can't go whining that "Iran is funding terrorists" when we fund our own proxies who are just as bad.
It also began a weapons program to create ballistic missiles than could reach those countries as well as possible WMD's to put on those weapons, thus giving them for the first time an ability to directly attack and confront both countries. This is what President Trump said he was there to prevent in the most recent attack on them.
If Israel and America can have all those weapons, why can't Iran? The US is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons on people. We are hardly on the moral high ground here.
Iran is viewed in a similar light. Just like the Black-on-Black violence in America must be overlooked, the fact that Iran has just recently murdered over 30 thousand of its own people must also be overlooked. The fact that Iran attacked all of its neighboring countries who had NOTHING to do with the US attack must also be overlooked. And the fact that it has oppressed its people, especially women and gays, since their revolution as well as all of the proxy wars across the Middle East that have murdered hundreds of thousands must also be overlooked.
Well, first, the 30K number is Zionist Bullshit, but you are right, it's terrible that they are oppressing their own people. It's also none of our business. Just like what is going on in Myanmar is none of our business. Or North Korea. Or any other country that has decided they like them some strongmen.
Currently, Iran is not allowing oil to flow to the rest of the world despite the fact that these countries had nothing to do with the American attack that just occurred. Why? As Trump said, this is YOUR problem now. The international community must get off their arse and finally hold Iran accountable for something and stop overlooking their own crimes against their own people and against the international community. As Trump said, the US does not need any of their oil, so it is not their problem.
This problem wouldn't exist if
Israel Trump hadn't attacked Iran to start with.
The solution for the rest of the world would be to reach their own agreements with Iran and ignore American attempts to bring down their regime.