It seems impossible for people to consider the possibility that the Iranian people have the government they want, because they are 95% Shiite and that is the government they want.
There is an article over on zero hedge about Japanese orders for military equipment that are hugely overdue in delivery. The US has weapons in inventory, and if they are used they must be replaced.
In October, in Korea, the trade talks with China took place with the number one absolute top priority the issue of Rare Earth’s, and the most significant subset of those, neodymium magnets. Without those society largely cannot function nowadays and are sophisticated weaponry cannot be built.
Those trade talks yielded nothing with respect to the magnets. Very quietly, US policy is being affected by the inability to replace weapons in inventory that get used or shipped to somebody else or anything of that sort.
It is an uncomfortable possibility to recognize that post trade talks, it becomes very clear that the inventory cannot be squandered on use that may prove far less important than something in the future. Simply that. The inventory cannot be squandered because it cannot be replaced.
Greenland has quite a bit of neodymium. Just sayin’
The people of Iran do NOT want this regime. They do NOT want their oil revenues to be disbursed to Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, or other proxy groups.
Religiosity has dropped drastically in Iran. In the last uprising, people burned down mosques and theology centers. Many Iranians have converted to Christianity and Zoroastrianism.
Even those who remain Shiite Moslem do not have the same vision as their rulers.
Shiite believe there is a 12th “infallible” Imam who disappeared 1,000+ years ago, and will return on armageddon.
But the Iranian rulers believe it is their duty to spread Shiite Islam everywhere, to expedite end of times.
This explains why they are funding terrorists, media, protesters, Islamic Centers, and politicians, all over the world, including the US.
Iran is ruled by a death cult, flush with cash, spreading its belief all over the world. This is a threat, not just to people of Iran, or Israel, or the middle east. It is a threat to civilization and humanity.