you should include the Ayatollahs in this. Iran isnt innocent. it also has an expansionist ideology. they believe wherever there is a shia population, they should become a satellite state or vassal state of Iran. that is what they have been trying to do in Bahrain since 1979. the Iranians didnt consider Assad and his sect as muslim, then the syrain civil war happened, and then all of a sudden, poof, the ayatollahs declared them as muslims and joined the war and fight for Assad. in Yemen they make shit worse by arming the Houthis and turning it into a war, and then the Saudi-led coalition joins in and makes it an even bigger war. in Iraq 2003, the shias didnt fight USA, only sunnis did. why? because iran and iraqi shias did a deal with USA. so where was your anti-imperial ideology in 2003? at least Saddam Husain was an Iraqi running Iraq. he was more muslim than Bush and Blair, but Iran and the shias helped USA to conquer Iraq. actually if you go into the shia madhabs books, you are going to find loads of persian worshipping, and racism against every other race (arabs, blacks, kurds, turks, sindhis, afghans, indians). the only 2 praised races are Persians and Europeans. this is partially what fuels Iran's own expansionist ideology.