EDIT: Correction, I was banned from Lemmy Zip, the confusion stems from my inability to see Lemmy Zip communities in the search anymore leading me to think it was Lemmy ML which has a community of the same name.
EDIT: Correction, I was banned from Lemmy Zip, the confusion stems from my inability to see Lemmy Zip communities in the search anymore leading me to think it was Lemmy ML which has a community of the same name.
Sure, but every regional power is playing those dipshit games. It certainly hasn’t stopped us from aligning with Saudi Arabia - or Israel, for that matter.
The public-facing and clandestine ops sides of relations are often entirely divorced - hence why even close allies like the UK and the USA can end up supporting opposite sides in global spook shit.
Iran is hostile to our interests - but not nearly to the degree that US politics - especially Republican politics - have treated it as, and Iran’s first and foremost interest in its international diplomacy is the preservation of its shitty Islamic Republic.
As far as “Let’s not be enemies” goes, we already make far worse compromises. Neutrality with Iran is (or would have been, since that’s a distant prospect now) more-than-worth an increased ability to refocus on China and Russia.