You know that the Iran of then is almost completely unrelated to the Iran of now culturally, politically and even religiously due to... err... “foreign intervention”, right?
The tens of billions of dollars Iran invests into fighting Israel are (in my opinion) much better spent investing into developing the Iranian people and economy. Spending billions of dollars funding proxy wars, fighting a pointless forever war against Israel, pursuing nuclear weapons, and firing drones and missiles at your neighbors is a foolish foreign policy. Iran is asking for trouble.
If Iran had a different foreign policy, this current conflict would never have happened. Iran's situation was entirely avoidable.
[0] https://gamaan.org/2025/11/05/12-day-war-survey-english/
That's my point. Iran did, and it did not work out for them so why would they try again?
> Polling of Iranians citizens show 69% of people
67% of people believe Trump is doing a bad job; 56% believe the US shouldn't be in this war; 63% believe the US should stop supporting Israel. They're all roughly the same % as your quote, does that mean the US should change foreign policy?
> Iran's situation was entirely avoidable
Sure, by not dropping bombs on them while negotiation with them?