Oh I don't know the heaviest sanctions from the US for as long as anyone can remember might have something to do with it? When the western powers broke up the old Ottoman empire they carved up the ME between them with various spheres of influence and most of the borders in place today which were arbitrarily drawn as a line in the
sand map when oil was discovered in Iran and elsewhere western powers set up oil companies set up heavily in their favour when the population rejected this and wanted control and elected a leader that wanted separation from the West the US and the CIA in particular engineered a coup that overthrew the democratically elected leader and pushed the western-leaning Shah to become de-facto dictator, with terms very much in favour of the West and the US in particular. When his increasingly harsh crackdowns became too much the population rose up in rebellion in the so-called Islamic Revolution and the de-facto power structure was put in place which persists to this day, a triumvirate of Clerics, an elected president, and the Revolutionary Guards a paramilitary regime within a regime who are largely a law unto themselves and behind the seizing of shipping amongst other things.
The one thing that unites all these various often violently opposing factions is a shared hatred of the West, of western interference in their country and the region, and of the US in particular. The US in return has a hate boner for the Iranian regime and everything it stands for and in particular for the humiliation of its hostages following the overthrow of its puppet the Shah and wants total control and influence over the area which the Iranians are vehemently opposed to. So we are in the situation where the US cripples the Iranian economy with sanctions and Iran does everything it can to counter its influence. Even when they try to go legit and say we're going to co-operate with international community over nuclear technology say which Obama was going along with the regime changes in america and Trump comes into power and throws the whole thing out the window and effectively spits in their faces which means any moderate voices in Iran are humiliated and we're back to square one.
And now this govt no doubt under pressure from the US want to declare the Revolutionary Guards in particular a terrorist organisation which conveniently means any military attacks on Iranian targets or indeed soil, become legitimate under law, in other words the judiciary and the people of this country are being softened up for direct attacks on Iranian targets almost certainly. In other words just more escalation and another forey into the middle east especially with recent govt rhetoric lining up Iran as the bogeyman as the evil genius behind all the ills in the ME and all we have to do is somehow neutralise it and all will be right in the world again. Its Saddam Hussein and another Iraq war or rather Iran this time all over again, because it all went
so well last time. Oh joy.
I'm sure the average russian justifies the slaughter of civilians in Ukraine in the same way "its just war" afterall. Casualties incidentally are much lower than Gaza.
