Come on man, rules went out the window the day Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and unilaterally reinstated sweeping sanctions.
My friend, you don't understand what I'm saying, but I'll try to explain : imagine a soccer game where player CRISTIANO RONALDO scores a goal with his hand (which is illegal under FIFA rules), but the referee says "The goal was actually a goal with his hands but I like Cristiano Ronaldo and I'm going to allow his goal," and confirms the goal with FIFA's support. What would happen the next day?
It would happen that in every game, teams would demand the right to score with their hands, and then there are two options:
1. Allow every goal with hands, which would nullify the sport of soccer and its rules, becoming like basketball or handball, and would be a mess.
2. Say that only Cristiano Ronaldo and some players and teams can score with their hands, which is unfair and equally unacceptable, and would be a mess.
In both cases, the result is: it would be the end of soccer as we know it because teams would be closed, players would end their careers, sponsors would leave, fans would stop supporting and it would be the end of the sport of soccer.
Above example is the same situation where the political world has rules (such as national borders, business, treaties, flags, etc). Circumventing these rules and trying to pretend this isn't happening has always had political consequences and always will have.
And these consequences have already begun to materialize: Just look at how, for the first time in millennia, the "Israeli" elite is being publicly viewed as genocidal and villainous by Western common people and academia. If you took a "time machine" and went back 10 years and told this, no one would believe it, and that's just the beginning. It's not an Iran issue; it's an issue that no one can't go around killing women and children, killing journalists, destroying international law, and thinking there will be no exchange, because there will be.