u/AreaSIX — AreaSIX

Being employed by an embassy doesn't magically make you a diplomat my guy. Not saying that the 2nd would cover it in any case, but still.

I wouldn't say they learned nothing from that war game. They've never done to Iran what they did to the other six of the infamous seven that the Bushies planned to dismantle. I suspect that that war game is a factor in that decision. This thing with the Houthis serves to refresh their memories I guess. At least I hope. Who knows, with this admin, anything can happen

I'd say Iran and Hizbollah in Lebanon haven't exactly ignored the situation either, and have paid a fairly heavy price themselves thus far.

This garbage needs to stop. The "not-elected beurocracy" is comprised of civil servants who often reject better paying positions in the private sector in order to contribute to the society they live in.

This vilification of civil servants is part and parcel of reactionary right wing movements, who can't stand people in decision making positions not being subservient to their particular partisan reactionary project. A good recent example is the insane opposition to the 15 minute city concept on the right. As if a traffic planner in the municipality trying to create walkable cities is some evil plant of the 'deep state' or some other insane garbage.

Those 'beurocrats' are the ones making the wheels of your nation's public sector turn, they are the ones providing public services to people who need them to survive, independent of who's in power. Vilification of public servants is and always will be the domain of the reactionary impulse. You hating that pig Jean-Marie doesn't change this fact in the slightest. You should really reconsider this position if you actually hold leftist sentiments.

Iran got involved in Syria to fight IS, the same people that rebranded as HTS, the leader of which now has put on a suit, changed his name and rules the new Syria. One of the first thing they did: started massacring minorities in Syria by the thousands, just in the last week. Also, Syria is in the Middle East, next to Iran. Iran isn't involved in military operations in Mexico. If IS wasn't stopped in Iraq and Syria, they'd be massacring civilians in Iran, since Iranians are Shia and therefore heretics to be killed.

Your view unfortunately seems to have been influenced by the classification of nations as axis of evil that I referred to above. It's confused and incoherent, and lacks a whole lot of nuance. That's what happens when nations are classified as "evil", which is a metaphysical religious term making nuance impossible. You say "if Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists", thereby implying that you consider this a worth while goal, while simultaneously vilifying the only forces in the region working to achieve that liberation, namely Hamas, Hizbollah and Ansar Allah in Yemen, as "proxy armies" of Iran, completely delegitimizing their agency and the fight for the very liberation you seem to support.

Finally, it's absolutely wild to state that a Palestine under the influence of Iran would be "the same shit all over again" as the almost century long oppression, occupation, dispossession and genocide carried out by the Zionists against the Palestinian people. Absolutely wild! I urge you to take a step back and consider that statement, and why you would make such an absurd and outrageous claim to begin with. Because I feel like you're doing that without thinking about it a whole lot, and would reconsider that position if you thought about the comparison you're making. Iran has zero designs on dispossessing or occupying Palestine and its people. To compare that with what Israel has been doing is just not a good look.

Comparing Iran to Russia and the US is strange in every way. Iran has a very defensive military, geared towards defending Iran. There aren't exactly private military contractors from Iran everywhere just murdering anyone that isn't snow white. Iran hasn't surrounded the US with military bases. People just completely swallowed that axis of evil horseshit.

"Axis of evil" was a phrase coined by W in order to justify his highly illegal "war on terror", and we're still paying the price for that. Just adopting a propaganda concept this stupid as a viable way to categorize nations is not a good move.