Changing the government does not change people. Tsar Royal Russia took Armenia and Azerbaijan from Iran. Communist Russia some 120 years later tried its best take Kurdistan and rest of the Azerbaijan. Federalist Russia is openly eyeing Caspian Sea now ...
The status of the Caspian has been legally undetermined for ages. Incrementally challenging Iran's proposal for a division of the Sea is therefore different from trying to annex internationally recognized sovereign Iranian lands.
Azeri Qizilbash have been fighting with these Russians for centuries to save Iran and they took away half of our people/tribes, they broke Iran that Ottomans, British failed to accomplish.
At the end of the day, the
British exterminated 50% of the Iranian population in 1917-1919 in one the most horrible ways imaginable. Nothing the Russians did to Iran comes close, although we did have our conflicts in the past, no doubt.
Also when it comes to taking away parts of Iranian tribes and sub-groups, let's not forget how the British severed a portion of Baluchestan, as well as large swathes of Greater Khorassan (the three westernmost provinces of present day Afghanistan) off Iran.
The sense of proportions is important when drawing comparisons.
Americans to this day are opposed to any territorial change in Iran, they just want Regime change to something like Persian Gulf Arabs. There are some Neocon Thugs and Zios in the US administration that keep blabbering BS against Iranian territory but their deep state (actual controllers) never took any action of that sort against Iran
The US regime and its zionist patrons are definitely pursuing an agenda of "ethno"-linguistic dismantling of Iran.
Their concrete Iran-policy is evidence to this. It's not confined to rhetoric, but consists in a significant array of actions which illustrate their intentions. Indeed every single separatist organization is enjoying heavy political, financial, logistic and intelligence backing from the west, the zionists and from some of their regional client states. Iranian intelligence published a photograph of Abdolmalek Rigi at a US military base in Kyrgyzstan, Kurdish armed separatist grouplets are being backed by the zionists in northern Iraq, the main theoretician and background planner of anti-Iranian pan-Turkism is a female scholar from Isra"el", and so on.
Moreoever these same existential enemies of Iran have been lending enormous support to separatism and separatist ideas in the propaganda department. They are also engaged in intense social engineering to cultivate these notions in the minds of Iranians, something that can clearly be observed on "social media" etc. This tendency has been uninterruptedly rising ever since the neocon cabal initiated the remodeling project for West Asia and North Africa in 2001.
Perhaps more importantly even, the fact is also that every other opposition group the US regime and the zionists are banking upon for "regime change", has been directed by Washington and Tel Aviv to actually endorse the territorial break up of Iran in case of a downfall of the Islamic Republic. Hence the noticeable shift in the discourse of these classic opposition groups, from monarchists and Reza Pahlavi himself (who is now holding meetings with the secretary of Komalah, participating at pan-Turkist events sponsiored by the embassy of the Republic of Azarbaijan etc) to secular liberal nationalists and democrats, leftists, MKO and so on.
While much of the left-wing opposition had always exhibited some tolerance or even actively cooperated with "ethno"-separatist organizations, this wasn't holding true of the secular nationalists and monarchists, until their western and zionist sponsors requested them to subscribed to the agenda for "ethno"-linguistic federalization of Iran as well as to cooperate with separatist groups, which they complied with.
The late Dariush Homayun and Ardeshir Zahedi, both leading monarchist figures and holders of high government offices under the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, explicitly warned of and denounced this development.
otherwise they would have crushed Iran in early 2000s when we had 8 x F-14, some Shahab-1/2 and S-200. The invasion was impossible but they could have destroyed the entire military-industrial complex of Iran that was taking shape at that time along with military infrastructure (naval dockyards, ports, AF bases etc), a repeat of first Persian gulf war. They did not do that.
I don't believe they could have achieved it all the while of keeping costs and fallouts of such an endeavour within politically and financially acceptable boundaries. Not after they got seriously bogged down for years in Iraq, in no small part thanks to Iran's asymmetric response via the Iraqi Resistance. But the plan of the US regime was to crush Iran next.
Besides, even so-called "regime change" without territorial modifications would have required the use of military force against Iran, for it would have been unrealistic otherwise.
Does this mean we should worship Russians or Americans ? No Internationally no one is anyone's ally, it's all about business and symbiotic gains. Russia and Iran are aligned for now and will stay that way for some time. A strategic alliance does not exist though and to be honest Iran should not trust anyone.
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On this I can agree without hesitation.