Iran is not a dog-turd country — the regime definitely is.
Iran has over 4000 years of history - this is the land of Cyrus the Great who freed the Jews; this is the only land in the Middle East besides Israel and Syria that allows Christians and Jews to freely practice their religion and indeed keeps seats reserved for them in parliament, this is a flawed, very flawed democracy, but far more than every other Middle Eastern state.
The Ayatollahs are bad, no doubt, but not Iran - Iran has potential once it throws off the yoke of Islam. And that day will come
You’re kind of all over the place here. The Iranians of today certainly hold no kinship back to 2000 BC. Even in the 3rd century BC the Persians were driven to enslave the Greeks or kill every last one of them, even without the motivating force of Islam.
Iran is no place for westerners, and I won’t get weak-kneed romanticizing the fertile crescent. Iran sponsers terrorist groups to murder Americans. Today it is a craphole desert with a ton of oil.