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Yes all superpowers act the same way. In fact all powers act the same way - try to maximize their own power and access to resources etc. When last did Iran attack a neighboring country? Anyways they're not much of a military power right now, even by regional standards.

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Hezbollah, which is funded and armed from Iran has more than their fair share to answer for in eastern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. In the 1980s, while Iraq was certainly the initial aggressor, Iran quickly got the upper hand and remained on the offensive for most of the war.

Iran defended itself from Iraq's invasion. Hezbollah was formed in response to the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon.

> In fact all powers act the same way - try to maximize their own power and access to resources etc

Do you think that Nazi Germany and the USSR were just "trying to maximize their own power and access to resources"?

Why do you think they weren't?

The Holocaust, commitment to the spread of Communism throughout the globe ... that kind of stuff.

And the US didn’t do the same? They didn’t murder hundreds of millions of natives, overthrew democratically elected governments and instead put dictatorships in place to spread their antidemocratic radical capitalism?

>They didn’t murder hundreds of millions of natives

When we compare morality, we compare morality among contemporaries.

What are you talking about? They have one of the biggest influences both politically and militarily in the region right now. They are backing and involved with the Houthis in Yemen, the Hezzbollah in Lebanon, and the Quds Force in Iraq.

And also those three proxies I mention above, none of them are about resources but regional dominance. What would the resource even be? Iran has its own oil. In fact what's going on in Yemen is basically a proxy war between Saudia Arabia and Iran.

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