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I tend to ignore comments that use the adolescent term “lol” and then imply I said something I didn’t. I am not saying Iran is “wonderful”, go back and read what I said.

I said if the US chooses to pick a dog in the 1500 year fight between the Shiite Persians and the Sunni Arabs, and it is beyond my comprehension why the US would choose to step into that conflict but it clearly has, then Iran would be a better choice than Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies.

You seem to have a blind spot for Saudi Arabia, what causes this I have no idea. Iran is not a pleasant place, nor was Assad’s Syria, but compared to the barbaric, medieval, intolerant, backward desert kingdoms of the Arabian peninsula they are positive nirvanas (remember I said these things are relative, we are not discussing Sweden versus Switzerland here).

If it was me I would stay out of that fight, let them kill each other to their hearts’ content and then buy the oil off whoever is left standing. I see no need whatsoever to intervene in the Islamic civil war that started a thousand years before the US ever existed and will continue for another thousand years.

You on the other hand seem very keen to get involved and to act as ally and arms supplier to the hateful people who funded and carried out the 9/11 attacks (you can pick and choose which state-sponsored terrorists to condemn and pretend that only one side is doing it, I am not so naive, the Qataris and the Saudis are flooding cash to their Wahabist proxies and have been doing so for decades, the world and his aunty knows that only you seem to be unaware of it) and who are funding and supporting dreadful Islamist groups throughout the Middle East.

My opinion is stay out of the fight but if you have to get involved the shiites and alawites of Persia and Syria seem a lot more attractive than the head-chopping ghouls of the desert kingdoms. You disagree but seem incapable of giving a sound reason why the head choppers get your vote.

I lived two years in Iran during the fall of the Shah and five years in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, i.e., Desert Shield and Desert Storm.. Iran is our enemy. The Iranian mullahs aren't interested in being an ally of the US. We are the Great Satan. Iran is in the process of acquiring a nuclear weapon. Why?

85% of Islam is Sunni and some other sects other than Shi'a. The Saudis are not our enemy.

You seem to have a blind spot for Saudi Arabia, what causes this I have no idea. Iran is not a pleasant place, nor was Assadâ€™s Syria, but compared to the barbaric, medieval, intolerant, backward desert kingdoms of the Arabian peninsula they are positive nirvanas (remember I said these things are relative, we are not discussing Sweden versus Switzerland here).

How much do you know about Saudi Arabia? Do you understand the depth of our current and historical relationship militarily and economically?

If it was me I would stay out of that fight, let them kill each other to their heartsâ€™ content and then buy the oil off whoever is left standing. I see no need whatsoever to intervene in the Islamic civil war that started a thousand years before the US ever existed and will continue for another thousand years.

It is not an Islamic civil war.

You should read the links I provided to you on human and religious rights in Iran. You have no knowledge of the region.