“Iran is not and has never been the real danger to American interests.”
You are about as wrong as wrong can be. The Ayatollah Khomeni returned to Iran in 1979. This was a great awakening of “evangelical” Islam. In this case, “evangelical” is synonymous with radical.
It’s not Iran who is financing the worldwide recruitment of terrorists and promotion of the doctrine that has waged global war on the USA. The 9-11 people were Saudis, not Iranian. In fact, an argument can made than a less hostile relationship with Iran would be profitable to our nation in providing a counterweight to a possiblity of Sunni hegemony in the Islamic world. After all, there was a time not long ago when Iran helped us in our campaign against the Taliban.