Iran will help Russia build drones for Ukraine war, Western officials say

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. You do realize

that this is our own damn fault, right? When you make a pariah of a country, is is going to ally with another pariah.

What Iran did (the hostage crisis) happened 42 years ago). Think about this---the government of Iran is probably no worse than the government of Saudi Arabia, and those guys are our "allies". Some allies, right? Only because they have more oil and more money.

Your everyday Persian in the streets is probably more like us than your everyday Saudi is. Before the overthrow of the Shah, and even before that, they were one of the most westernized countries in the Middle East. Further, the current government, and the overthrow of the Shah, can be directly tied to the CIA, which was responsible for the overthrow of the democratically elected leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, in 1953, because he was, OMFG, a "leftist, a socialist, maybe even a *gasp* Communist!" said John Foster Dulles, and the establishment of the cruel regime of Shah Reza Pahlevi. So yeah, in many ways the current government is directly our fault.