We attack them, we become the common enemy. No flowers for us. We become too overt in helping an overthrow, be too much of a reminder about something we did in the past. Again, no flowers for us.
Thinking out LOUD about an Arab culture having domination over Persians, we don’t need no stinkin flowers, but we do wonder when Persians are gonna reclaim their balls from the Arabs.
The reverse psychology they’re trying out against the US to draw us in (per this article), which will prop up Iranian nationalism against an outside foe deserves a counter along the same vein.
It always ends in the same cycle, these threads. Think about it.