You must review your list of friendly countries.
US doesn't have interest at all of running a 90 millions people country with technology and capability to run all entire Middle East.
I respectfully disagree. Turkey is currently playing this role. In fact, if you listen to Robert Baer about the Middle East before the Arab Spring started, he mentioned that Arabs, particularly Saudi Arabia, had failed to contain Iran in the Middle East and the US had to switch to Turkey to contain Iran's growing influence. And if you see what has happened after 2010 in the Middle East, you will clearly notice a very strong pattern where Turkey has constantly played that role for the US in the Middle East. And Turkey has 90 million people just like us. So, this idea that the US doesn't have such interests is a false premise.
Nobody is suggesting here to marry with China or Russia. But you can be clear like cristal that if Irán falls, next in the list will be Russia. Not to mention that an US aligned Irán would break the silk road or just complicate It too much to be affordable.
You guys keep changing your list. One day you say the next in the list is Turkey, the other day you say it's Russia. Russia has over 6,000 nuclear and hypersonic warheads capable of reaching Europe and the US, including strategic nuclear warheads over 50 megatons to defend its sovereignty. I don't think Russia needs Iran, unfortunately. Why unfortunately? Because I would pay good money to see the Russians fall after betraying all of their friends, but it's not going to happen.
China in 2008 It is not the 2026 China. Without Chinese military assistance Irán would never won the war. After June 2025 campaign Chinese help were capital for rebuilding missile industries and importing raw materials for early re assembling OWA drones. They delivered some of the most competent MANPADS and also gave political support in UNSC.
Nonsense. I am yet to see direct Chinese military assistance in any meaningful way whatsoever. Chinese military assistance has always been limited to indirect import of military chips and components, or raw materials like ammonium perchlorate when Iran was forced to quickly expand its production rate of solid-fueled missiles. The Europeans also have done that for us for decades. As I said, our entire nuclear weapons program was based on European components imported clandestinely.
So you can't compare China"s 2008 with China's 2026.
I didn't compare China in different periods in terms of its own development. Needless to say, it is evident that China has developed itself into a major power in the last 2 decades. But it is absolutely comparable in terms of its business with Iran. If anything, China-Iran relations in early 2000s was miles ahead of our situation in 2026.
Moreover if Irán is wise and give some juicy contracts to US, US public oppinion will judge Irán is better ally than Israel. At least Islamic Republic would be able to give some money to american companies and not robbering their wallets for crazy wars.
I don't think the US public opinion is that important. I don't consider the US to be a functioning democracy anymore. A country where over 30% of the wealth is hoarded by less than 2% of the society cannot be a real democracy.
But don't loose the perspective. US hates muslims, there have been a lucrative bussiness based on spreading wars in the Middle East in benefit of the Entity and they smell the money in the war like sharks bood.
Again, that's a false premise. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the Emirates, Qatar, they all have benefitted from working with the United States. Republic of Azerbaijan has close ties with Israel and they finally took back their lands from Armenia with the help of Israel and the US. The idea that the US is inherently evil and anti-Muslim is a false premise as there are multiple examples right next to us who maintain amicable relations with the US.