Coupla three things about Iran:

~After the Iranian Revolution, out of patriotism for their country, many military officers stayed and fought against Iraq which invaded their country at the behest of the Reagan junta, similar to French officers of the Ancien Regime who fought against British and Prussian invaders seeking to overthrow Napoleon.

~After being with Iraqi chemical weapons in their decade-long war, the Iranian theocracy refused to allow the military to counterattack Iraq with their own chemical attacks, issuing a fatwa against the use of WMDs as they "would despoil nature."

~Israel's Mossad, using local assassins from the MeK or PJAK, murdered Iranian nuclear scientists, at least five known of publicly.

~Iran has been careful to avoid causing American casualties over the past several years to not fall into Benjamin Netanyahu's trap; Iran's proxies or allies have counterattacked against US forces in Iraq or against oil tankers in the Horn of Africa.

~Israel cynically and callously caused the death of dozens of spies and the arrest of scores of them in Iran who were easily netted by the MOIS when the IDF began its illegal bombing campaign against Tehran. I cannot think of another spy agency that got so many of its sources killed or arrested in one year.

~Under Barack Obama, the US and the UN were negotiating with Iran and monitoring their nuclear facilities which, amongst other things, was producing radioactive isotopes for their thousands of cancer patients.

~Iran signed the NNPT and allowed IAEA inspectors into their facilities; Israel never signed the NNPT and never allowed IAEA inspectors into their facilities. Under the START program, US and Russian inspectors would visit each others nuclear sites. One of my generals led the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) which later became DTRA.

~Israeli PM Golda Meir: "You don't make peace with your friends." Israel's rightwing needs a perennial enemy to distract from the landgrab and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, which Tehran (and most of the world) disapprove of. So Tel Aviv and Tehran will never achieve what Golda Meir mused 55 years ago.

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