How much is Iran actually the enemy of the USA? Even in 2012?
It really isn't. There is nothing threatening about Iran and certainly not to the USA.
But, what is perceived of Iran to rank it so high in concern? Nukes. The idea Iran has been able to build a nuclear reactor from plans that were originally sabotaged by the USA is what ranks it among the worst of our enemies.
Iran is 6,578 miles from Washington, DC. They haven't got the capacity to be our enemy. The USA concern regarding Iran is for Israel, it's ally.
Do you know who Iran considers it's worst enemy?
July 25, 2014
Iranians rallied nationwide (click here) on Friday in a show of support for Palestinians as archfoe Israel pursued its campaign against Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip.
Demonstrations were held in Tehran and more than 700 towns and cities across the country on the last day of prayer and rest of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, state television reported.
In the capital, footage showed demonstrators, carrying placards proclaiming “Death to Israel” and “Death to America,” converging from nine different points on Tehran University in the city center.
Iran holds al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) rallies in support of the Palestinians every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, but this year’s demonstrations came on the 18th day of Israel’s campaign against rocket-firing and tunnel-digging Hamas extremists in Gaza. Hamas has fired over 2,000 rockets into Israel. It has also built dozens of “attack tunnels” under the border, and attempted five attacks from the tunnels in the past two weeks, killing six Israeli soldiers; Israel killed 20 gunmen emerging from the tunnels....
To that reality and loyalty, many Americans would agree with Iran, in that Israel has gone too far in it's attacks on Palestinians.
Is it likely the USA will ever exchange nuclear capacity with Iran?
No.
October 8, 2013
By Armando Cordoba
ERBIL, Kurdistan - Ansar al-Islam, (click here) an umbrella group for Sunni Iraqi and Arab jihadists, has called for Iranian Sunnis to unite in a jihad against their Shiite clerical government.
In a message on its official website and Facebook page, the jihadist organization said all Sunnis in Iran must “collect under a single banner that is right, and use Jihad,” to make Iran “one nation, a nation of the Quran and the sword.”
AI said that the justification for jihad against the Tehran government was the growing Shiite influence in the country.
AI’s call comes as Iran’s newly-elected President Hassan Rohani – a moderate Shiite cleric -- was inaugurated into office recently and vowed to bring more rights to Iran.
AI leaders said that Shiites in Iran were after money, power, the removal of Islam, and that they wanted to “switch religions.” It said Shiite leaders do not represent the Islamic nation....
Iran has it's own problems and it has nothing to do with Israel. What I find interesting when I measure Iran's willingness to go to war, even in defense of itself, it is somewhat lacking. If Iran is receiving threats from errant groups in the region, it has a right to secure from that danger for it's citizens. Iran probably relied on Assad to contain groups that would cause danger to them. Today, I doubt that threat is any less and probably more than in 2013. There is every reason for all the nations of the Middle East, including Israel, to come together to find solutions in ending this danger to others within sovereign nations.
Will that happen? Will Sunni and Shi'ite nations come together to solve common threats? Most probably not, which leave Iran alone and in need of a sovereign military.
The region has a lot of issues and it is easy to blame the USA as a scapegoat to it's alliance with Israel, supposedly another common foe. Israel doesn't make it easy to alleviate the concerns of these nations either. In the case of the growth of jihadists out of Syria, The West can stake it's claim to that mess. Absolutely.
