Agree completely.
You are very pragmatic/realistic for a middle eastener. All what you said are hard facts which many Arab /persian/muslim members here dont understand. It just makes me laugh when Iran thinks it can take on the west/U.S combined head on and win.lol , meanwhile not even farrrrrrr bigger powers like China and Russia have the capabilities to do so for now. Iran just needs to play its cards right and be more pragmatic, its too weak/small to be anle to change wotld order/dynamics. Maybe China or Russia can in few decades from now. But Iran?lol
You mentioned very important i really liked, i.e members from middle east you immigrated/ran away from their ummah/saint country for a better life/freedom/lifestyle in the west/U.S , yet they are always the first to bash the west as having devilish morals/culture,hegemonistic,imperialist, etc etc. Lool. Why dont they leave this 'evil' west and go back to their lovely middle eastern countries? You will think if i was anti Russian, why will i immigrate to russia , work in russia pay taces to the russian government and contribute to its hegemony/power, then seat comfortably in my Russian house and take my laptop to claim how evil Russia is. Lol Hypocrisy at its best. Fooling nobody.
I have both ancestral ties to the ME and Europe so I am perfectly familiar with both those regions of the world and its people including their prevalent mentalities. I have lived in both regions too.
You just have to understand this. Just because Europe/West (USA + Canada) is ahead right now and have been that for over 500 years, you should NEVER forget that what is now the MENA region, especially the Arab world which is home to the oldest civilizations on the planet and cities, was the center of the world for millenniums and a leading power for millenniums too.
Those things change historically and are likely to change again. Western hegemony won't continue forever as other regions are not sitting back and doing nothing although it sometimes might appear like that.
What I am just saying is that there is currently no ME/Muslim/non-Western country (outside of China) that can truly challenge the Western hegemony. Especially not in the Arab world + MENA region which is a DIRECT neighbor of Europe. That's all.
Other than that it's not a secret that the policies of the Mullah regime in Iran and that of other regimes in the region are foolish.
Also when I/we mean the West we obviously mostly mean the US. The US is 90% of NATO for instance and the undisputed leader of the Western world. Without the US we would not have this discussion for instance.
I tell you why their intentions are not crystal clear. Because these murderous clerics have relied on ''uncertainty'' since the beginning. Their intentions were and still are to confuse the world and even their own people. BILLIONS of Iranian money have been spent on pathetic firework for various terrorist militant groups while the average Iranian needs atleast two jobs and work for 16 hours a day to be able to pay his rent (with luck) and be able to put food on the table (also with luck).
Iran has so much potential and with the oil and gas we have we should have been atleast on par with a country like South Korea. Most of our infrastructure is beginning to rot since they are all built under the Shah and his father but these bastards have chosen to spend OUR money on other affairs that have NOTHING to do with us.
Their nuclear program just like the other huge mismanagement have been a complete failure, they neither could estabilish a stable nuclear energy program or build a bomb, NONE. They are the most incompetent regime ever on this planet probably on the same level as Sudan or a other failed regime.
I have never been to Iran so I don't know if you are exaggerating but it is no secret that Iran has great potential but so HAVE almost every country in the MENA region especially those ruled by regimes/dictatorships and if we are honest almost every single one of them is that.
Also I see a bright future between GCC and neighboring Iran once the Mullah's in Iran will be gone and once the silly rivalries end. The Mullah's in Iran should just learn not to spread their poison in vulnerable regions of the Arab world (Southern Lebanon, Southern Iraq, Syria + now Yemen too). They will only create enemies by such policies.
The Mullah tool that you discussed with earlier
@Madali is an Arab hater despite having grown up in the UAE (his own words) and despite his wife and son living there.
You must understand that we find such Iranians annoying. They insult the Arab world yet have lived in it and have relatives there and at the same time they are propagandizing how great Mullah ruled Iran is. Can you see the irony here?
Iran's biggest trading partner by FAR is the UAE too.
Please don't call him an wannabe Arab. It's an insult to non-Mullah Arabs.
Thanks and have a nice day. Most of the 450 million Arabs, including those in the GCC, have no problem with your average Iranian unless they are anti-Arab.
Also for all the Farsi barking, the biggest Persian + Lur diaspora in the world is found in the GCC. Many locals have partial Persian or Lur ancestry just like millions of Iranians across the Gulf and in Iran overall have Arab or partial Arab ancestry.
Iraq is the only Arab country that used to have an Iranian minority historically but it's almost non-existent today. The rest of the Arab world? The Iranians there can be counted on a few hands. Before 1979 there were no main problems outside of some disputes about some largely irrelevant islands in the Gulf between UAE and Iran. KSA alone has over 2500 islands for instance let alone the Arab world which might have 20.000 islands in total, lol. Those are minor issues overall.
The regimes in place in the ME just need those external enemies/bogeymen so their local populations (you know how the average dude is) can occupy himself with that instead of thinking independently and challenging status quo in his own country. It's especially bad in Iran and poorer Arab countries due to the dire economic state of those countries. It's not much a problem in the wealthy GCC.
But ignorance rules the day in most parts of the world.
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