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These kind of reductionist views are necessary, or the phony narratives simply fall apart upon scrutiny. They'll have you believe that history started yesterday, and a country like Iran got nothing better to do than hate our freedoms and destabilize the region for no apparent reason. Or Russia wants to establish a great Russian empire with their unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine. Looney Tunes plots to take over or to destroy the world, as excuse for Western domination and hegemony.
What's funny is that you don't even need to go very far back to have a real understanding of what's actually going on. Just a couple of decades. The people who were around at the time, personally involved with firsthand knowledge, are still here to tell us what went down.
Anyway. Not long after the Islamic revolution of 1979, there's was this thing called Iran Iraq war. Saddam was encouraged and supported by the west to invade Iran, who was seen as weakened and disorganized from the tumultuous revolution. It was one of the deadliest wars ever.
That was a pretty big deal. Iran quite obviously never want to experience something like that ever again.
Seeing that the west will stop at nothing to change the regime, including destroying the country (as we see today the Gaza model being brought to Tehran), Iran concluded prudently that it had to take a proactive stance in the region. As a matter of self-preservation.
The way to do that is to find friends and build movements with whom they share a common cause of resistance against imperial and apartheid oppression. Better to take the fight to other places than risk it reoccurring in your own lands. Not to mention standing up for what's right and against imperial domination.
Later on, we've had general Wesley Clark spill the beans on the five year plan of the United States of Israel to take out governments and destroy seven countries they'd designated as targets for nefarious reasons.
We utilize our toolkit of sanctions, armed insurrectionists, bombing campaigns and wars against anyone that seeks self-determination, and in so doing opposes our hegemony, our neoliberal one-sided systems and our petrodollar.
Well it's taken a bit longer but here we are. They've executed the plan accordingly and Iran is left today the last man standing.
Go listen to Joe Kent who after his resignation went on the podcast circuit to talk about how the west armed and trained militant jihadist terrorists like Al-Jolani to do their bidding in regime change operations.
During JCPOA when sanctions were lifted, Iran saw economic growth of 6-7 % per year. Economists at the time calculated Iran to have the strongest middle class in the Middle East by 2025, had they been allowed to develop. Doesn't sound oppressive to me.
At this point anyone with eyes can see that the Islamic regime probably has never had so much unity and support behind it from the people. Seems to me the regime was justified in devoting so much effort and resources to their security, military and missile capabilities.
I don't want to whitewash the regime. There's probably a lot of corruption, and draconian at times in its security and law enforcement. They deserve criticism for that, but these regime change operation attempts and wars have nothing to do with that.
The notion that we're liberating them by bombing schools, hospitals, universities, residential buildings and oil, gas, electricity infrastructure is horrifyingly stupid, if anyone actually believes it.