@Joekent16jan19 is effing stupid. He states a strawman's argument and then blows it over with a puff of dooby smoke.
As long as nobody pushed back on Iran, they are the bully of the entire Middle East. Because of their geographic location they basically kept their foot on the neck of the other countries in the region and used their position and financial resources to keep an ongoing conflict that affects all neighboring countries.
Additionally, they are holding 2/3 (or more) of their own people hostage to their radical form of Islam. The people have no option, they have no free speech option, little to no free practice of religion and no weapons to defend themselves from a tyrannical government.
Joe Kent needs to sit down and stfu.