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This is not completely true. The Iranian regime gained some credibility in the Sunni world by strongly supporting the Palestinian cause.

You can bet that every anti-war demonstration in the West now will have as many Palestinian flags as flags of the Iranian Islamic Republic.

Stranger coalitions have been put together by politics...

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Oh boy flying the flag of the Islamic Republic in the US would get so much blowback. Everyone knows how incredibly evil it is. It recently killed at least 20,000 protestors to stay in power.

I hope the people doing the blowback also blowback against flying US flags, a country that is famously responsible for so, so many deaths.

You think flying the US flag INSIDE the US will have blowback?

There were Hamas flags in the streets of NYC on Oct 8th 2023. Some people will gladly support anything.

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