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"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.
Also ironic given Iran is in this state because of US imperialism
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.
Um look I‘m completely against both Russian and American imperialism, but they did support Assad in Syria: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
Iirc they sent their revolutionary guards there to fight. And Hezbollah was deeply involved in defending the Assad regime. With the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah they do have proxy armies in the Middle East.
Iran is a lovely country and its horrible what western imperialism has done to it, but their regime is as shitty as it gets. If Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists and they’d be under the influence of Iran instead it would be the same shit all over again, saying this just to make a point.
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.
Oh please. Out of all the people the US had harmed, the current Iranian regime has caused the vast majority of its own problems. China and even Russia you can find a arguably sympathetic angle for if you're motivated enough. The Iranian regime is simply inhuman and lost.
the iranian regime is the work of the cia. they thought they could manipulate the religious fundamentalists, so they supported a coup against a democratically elected president, with a budget of $1M in 1953
there is way more, check it out, if you're interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran
You should read some history, mate. Learn what the CIA did to enrage the Iranians so much...
And the Iranian regime is a paragon of freedom and justice. Got it. Lol.
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More like the war of terror