It's an oxymoron.

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... but not in 1953, when the Central Intelligence Agency, quite full of itself after rising from the ashes of the Office of Strategic Services, agreed to help Britain steal Iran's oil reserves for itself by deposing the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED president of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, because he refused to bend the knee to Britain and cede his country's natural resources to a thieving imperialist nation trying desperately to still embody the once-heralded motto, The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire, by imposing its will on what would have been a staunch Western Ally.
Instead, Mossadegh died under house arrest; and the "Shah" of Iran was installed, despite pretty sketchy bona fides, as the new pet leader of Iran, with the help of his savage SAVAK secret police.
THIS is why, after 73 years, we're still in conflict with our fellow Caucasians, the Iranians: Stupidity, malice, and greed, now writ large by the worst president in our nation's history. They have every reason to distrust the US. As long as we try to maintain the false conceit that "we're the good guys", the enmity will live on.

Russia and the USA top that list.

However, that would make them vulnerable to nuclear blackmail from adversarial nations with nukes.

There is something to be said for the Mutually Assured Destruction that likely prevented the Cold War from exploding into WW3.

There is also something to be said for the failure of nations on this planet to get rid of nuclear weapons all together (two words on purpose).

Especially for your first and last sentences

they are a fundamentalist Islamic state that sponsors global terrorism. They are brutal to their own populace.
Obama did the right thing with his treaty, stopping them from getting a nuclear weapon.
That said, there is zero justification for Trumps attack on them, and in this conflict, we are the bad guys.

Kinda ironic or just plain bs.

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I think that Netanyahu is the most dangerous terrorist today.