aryobarzan
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Supporting Palestinian cause has been the biggest foreign policy mistake of Iran after revolution.Without such support Iran with her immense resources would havebeen amongst the top 10 nations of the world.1) It is an exercise of Iran's sovereignty. Do not think that if Iran were to cease its opposition to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that the US would suddenly lift all sanctions. Unless Iran becomes a vassal state of the US, the sanctions will remain. Sanctions are the price Iran pays for its sovereignty, not for its support of the resistance.
2) Israel seeks to maintain qualitative superiority over the region and would attempt to actively sabotage any Iranian effort to acquire nuclear weapons, regardless of Iran's stance on Palestine. Iran is a natural regional power under any government and this would naturally lead to conflict with the settler entity.
3) Supporting the oppressed is Iran's moral obligation. Just because others abdicate their duty to do this does not mean Iran should also.
4) Arming the resistance forces allows Iran to bolster threats to the settler entity close to its border. This has many beneficial results for Iran. Firstly, it means the settler entity has to divert huge amount of resources to monitor and counter those threats. Secondly, it boosts Iran's deterrence against Israel launching a hot war against Iran because it is another factor they have to account for in their cost-benefit analysis of such an action against Iran. Thirdly, it allows Iran to act against the settler entity from outside of its borders (via the resistance groups).
Even under the Shah Iran had positive relations with Israel on the intra-governmental level, this was not reflected by the opinions of the masses, who even then opposed such ties, much like the large majority of Arab populations oppose their governments' relations with Israel.
To be sovereign you do not need to support Palestine..yes it is not moral but who appointed Iran to be the moral champion of the world...are we holier than the pope!!...or as they say in Farsi "are we the bowl hotter than the soup!"
Sorry that I sound so insensitive but some things have to said when a nation loses so much and has nothing to show for it.