The biggest misconception and fantasy is that Iran somehow went to war against Israel and USA or that Iran somehow defended Palestine or Muslims, as well. Neither is the case.
Iran never lifted a finger against Israel (or the US) since 1948 and only for the first time ever launched a few missiles and drones at Israel (killing less than 30 Israelis in now 2 conflicts) after being brutally assaulted and carpet bombed by the US and Israel and having their leadership annihilated, much of their military, 300 billion in material damages and loses, 10.000's of casualties etc. Are we supposed to hail a country of 90 million, many times larger than tiny Israel for striking back with the only offensive weapons that they have (missiles and drones) after being attacked repeatedly, in particular after spending 50 years of cheap rhetoric and talk of destroying and defeating the US and Israel. Meanwhile for 99.99% of the time they used more energy founding Shia proxies/terrorist groups/cults opportunistically in war-torn/unstable Arab countries, supporting secular Arab nationalist Ba'athi dictators like Al-Assad that mass-murdered his own people in the 10.000's (before his father too), in order to gain influence as otherwise you would have zero influence because nobody in the Arab world or outside of Iran cares about some Sassanian king or Zoroastrianism which is almost extinct.
All of this was solely done and is being done in order to give Iran influence in the region. Not in order to defeat Israel or the West. Otherwise they had 50 + years to attack Israel. During the genocide in Gaza they did nothing either not even launched a single missile or drone. So they are not any better or worse than other Muslim nations.
Problem is that we have blind worshippers of them, many on this forum, who want to turn them into some deities that Muslims need to worship but they do not know their nature or behavior in the region since 1979. Or even within Iran itself where they have turned millions of Iranians away from Islam and religion altogether due to their rule. Which is why you find some of the biggest anti-Muslims and degenerates among the Iranian diaspora in the West. That did not come out of nowhere.
You can imagine the state of much of the Muslim world if such theatrics cannot be properly read by the average Muslim for what it is.
Same with the lot that believes that Erdogan and Turkiye (with all due respect) is going to defeat Israel and the West and what not.
Not very clever that lot, are they?
And before some trolls start crying about Arabs - no current day Arab leadership talks about destroying/defeating Israel and the US and past Arab leaderships (some), in the modern era, were the only ones who actually went to full-scale wars against Israel and had direct (actual wars other than air campaigns) wars with US are mostly Arabs too with Afghans. Nobody else. Same Arabs that used to rule much of South Europe for 700-800 years and which historically went to war with the West 100's of times just in the Islamic era let alone pre-Islamic era. Arab armies already 1300 + years ago were at the gates of Tours and Paris (Frankish Empire was the strongest European power back then) and only due to logistics (over 10.000 away from the Muslim Arab heartland) did they not accomplish conquering all of Western Europe.
But bottom line - all Muslim leaderships are the same in this regard. Today at least.
Qatar, KSA (used to to it for decades until 1-1.5 decade or so after 9/11 - more than any other Muslim nation) used to fund every Muslim group, uprising etc. against non-Muslims from Bosnia to Chechnya to Afghanistan to Palestine, but nobody claimed that KSA leadership was fighting for all Muslims or going to defeat Israel/USA, LOL. We only see it with Iran from the usual lot. Shame that they cannot give this honor to Qatar (main supporter of Hamas and even hosting their leadership - a Hamas leader was murdered in Tehran no less) as well. I guess Qatar needs to be carpet bombed by the US and Israel for that to occur and maybe the same lot will scream that Qatari leadership are the new Muslim deities that we need to worship because they fired a few drones and missiles at Israel after being carpet bombed first.
