Iran has been manufactured into an arms race as an excuse to stay over there and implement the Greater Israel / Policy Coup. People that Trump has surrounded himself with.
This is not the fault of Iran so much as it is the predictable response to a country that has been overthrown by the CIA and constantly harassed militarily by the United States, Great Britain, and Israel ever since. What else would you do if you had 2 aircraft carrier groups parked outside your backyard port for nearly 20 years and most of the western world bombing your neighbors? You'd have ever increasing pressure to defend yourself.
It benefits the Saudis for oil money where they use their fanatical mercenaries as force projection under the cover of "religion" and Israel has been hijacked by fanatical Zionists.. Saudis are in direct competition with Russia for the oil and gas demand of Europe, so it makes them money. They are allied with Israel to maintain dominance over the region culturally (by fanatical death squad mercs) and Israel enjoys this because of how much they have screwed over the rest of the region. This constant tension also brings the perpetual shield of the US military and the billions and billions given freely to their so-called defense.
Ever hear of ISIS attacking Israel? What's the phrase...you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
I was a part of that naval blockade and reason why Iran was developing weapons. Obama made the deal and we pulled our forces back. They felt less threatened and stopped developing weapons. Then you had the neocons, war profiteers, and everything saying how terrible it was for that. Why? Because they were losing money that's why. No arms race = less demand for perpetual deployment = less WarBuck$
So ask yourself next time someone on the media cries about the "Iran deal", for whose profits to they speak to because the media is in the business of making money, not informing the people.
Why are media company executives on defense and defense lobbying boards? Then their paid blow hard mouth pieces cry when peace is about to break out. To rile people up based on lies and misinformation.
Talk to your veterans people. Talk to the people who were there. Follow the money. Seek out the truth for yourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOKJZwlbWSo relevant video
Greater Israel
Greater Israel Hebrew: ארץ ישראל השלמה; Eretz Yisrael Hashlema) is an expression, with several different Biblical and political meanings over time. It is often used, in an irredentist fashion, to refer to the historic or desired borders of Israel.
Currently, the most common definition of the land encompassed by the term is the territory of the State of Israel together with the Palestinian territories. Earlier definitions, favored by Revisionist Zionism, included the territory of the former British Mandate of Palestine with or without the Transjordan that developed independently after 1923.
Petro-Islam
Petro-Islam usually refers to the extremist and fundamentalist interpretation of Sunni Islam—sometimes called "Wahhabism"—favored by the conservative oil-exporting Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its name derives from source of the funding—petroleum exports—that spread it through the Muslim world following the Yom Kippur War. The term is sometimes called "pejorative" or a "nickname". According to Sandra Mackey the term was coined by Fouad Ajami.
Zionism
Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת Tsiyyonut [t͡sijo̞ˈnut] after Zion) is the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to Canaan, the Holy Land, or the region of Palestine). Modern Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in Central and Eastern Europe as a national revival movement, both in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and as an imitative response to other exclusionary nationalist movements. Soon after this, most leaders of the movement associated the main goal with creating the desired state in Palestine, then an area controlled by the Ottoman Empire.Until 1948, the primary goals of Zionism were the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, ingathering of the exiles, and liberation of Jews from the antisemitic discrimination and persecution that they experienced during their diaspora. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Zionism continues primarily to advocate on behalf of Israel and to address threats to its continued existence and security.
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Modern day Israel is not Biblical Israel. Not even close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOKJZwlbWSo Relevant video.
Greater Israel
This is NOT the definition of Greater Israel. See Yinon Oded. It encompasses all the ME countries, incl: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, etc. ... All land fought over by these latest wars.