In addition to what’s already been said, keep in mind that Iran is Shia majority and Saudi Arabia are Sunni. Saddam was also Sunni.
On 19 August 1953 a coup d’état overthrew the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, strengthening the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.[5] It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot[6][7][8][9] and by the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project[10] or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh had nationalized the country’s oil industry in 1951.[11][12][13]
Anyone who doesn’t let the western billionaires exploit their country gets invaded. That is all.
And the Saudi’s have their own billionaires and more than happy to let a few westerners come play sometimes.
Thats an understatement. The US presidents advisor lives there. They do tons of weird shady shit with the US.
Because Israel and the US for shared as well as separate reasons existentially need a villain to wage a “holy” war against.
Narratives founded on conflict and exclusion must always have an enemy they can use to scare people into listening to their empty hate.
Iran was never really the boogeyman except by Israeli and American rhetoric, USA made them into it, because Iran wanted to control their own oil. This goes back to the early 50’s, where CIA undermined the Iranian democracy to instate the Shah to allow Americans to profit from the oil.
When Iran rebelled against the Shah in 1979, there was an attack on the US embassy by civilians, with 66 American hostages, USA was CLEARLY A HOSTILE force, so it was very understandable the public was mad at USA. Despite that after almost 2 years all the hostages were released. But USA has held Iran accountable ever since. despite it was not an official act, and despite AFAIK no Americans were killed. Yet USA has held an embargo supported by allies for almost half a century because of that.
So by USA reasoning it’s OK to hijack an entire country, dismantling their democracy with lies and fake terrorist attacks, and then take the country hostage for 20n years. But holding some 60 Americans prisoners for 2 years for their participation, makes Iran a terrorist nation!!
USA being a force in the world for democracy is a lie, what they are is a force for is US profits and nothing more.
USA continue their crimes against Iran, with false claims of Iran trying to make an atom bomb, despite all international intelligence that is the least bit trustworthy reports that it was against religious principles of Iranian theocracy. (But maybe they finally changed their minds?)The US and allies treatment of Iran has been insanely unfair, just as it has been against Cuba.
All civilized countries need to stand up against such international atrocities. Without USA Iran would probably still be a Democracy!!!
It’s disgusting that EU does not distance itself more from USA in their war against Iran!Iran has had a lot of internal strife, but I think any country under endless sanctions would. It’s relatively clear that most of their problems come from foreign actors like Israel, UK, and the US. Saudi is the fake Muslim country who aligns with the west while genociding other muslims, and Iran is seen as much better representation.
That being said, I think they have a case of young thought vs old thought, and had we not attacked them then I think things would have turned out better for everyone. But like many conflicts Trump had started, we had pedophilia to cover up and blackmail to avoid, so here we are.
