> A totalitarian theocratic regime with long range ballistic missiles and nukes.

Man, imagine that, how scary. I bet in theocratic regimes there's a bunch of stupid stuff going on, like a ~Secretary~ Minister of ~War~ Defense that justifies an attack on a foreign nation by calling it a holy war and prays every time he gives a speech to the troops.

Those theocrats probably do things like de-funding every science project they can when they get power. Or worse, maybe they think vaccines are against god's will and get a bunch of kids sick by opposing vaccines for preventable diseases. Hell they probably don't even teach their kids about evolution or gay people.

Can you imagine if a nation like that had nuclear weapons and long range missiles? Why, they might start a war for no reason.

47 years? What a convenient sounding number. Wonder where you got it from.

I honestly thought you were talking about the US in your first paragraph.

was this copy/pasted from a post from 30 years ago or was it typed up from scratch?

You certainly built a large strawman out of one sentence.

Hey, you forgot “they hate us for our freedoms” in your propaganda spiel.

Yeah it's a good thing we dismantled that regime and totally didn't empower the most extreme and radical portion of it while removing the politicians who'd tempered that and turned the population against the US and Israel.

But hey, at least we've lifted sanctions and we are now sending them even more money because the oil market was completely destroyed so that's great right?

Obviously this is the best strategy because we can see how the Taliban was completely dismantled in Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation right?

Unless you are proposing genocide of Iran or an eternal occupation, what we've done is kicked a hornets nest.

I agree THAT ethno nationalist country in the middle east, with long-range ballistic missiles, secret nukes and a secret nuclear doctrine that hasn't signed any Non-Proliferation treaty should make everybody worried. But that country isn't Iran.

It's the only country in the world with nuclear weapons that at this moment gets bombarded by missiles right now, if that doesn't make you worried you aren't paying attention.