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Originally Posted by Irenicus
The great British-led oil embargo in the 1950's toppled the Iranian nationalist regime and "restored" power to the Pahlavi Shah. But this is a new age, Iran has new allies who are more than eager to take advantage of such friction, and the British Empire is long past.
Can it really bare its fangs like it used to?
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Iran is just pretending to be big like Russia and China; the red states are already laughing at them from behind for acting big when it is small.
Even the other Muslim countries hate them for supporting ultra-religious factions on their relative soils - if Russia wasn't looking for a tool to use against US in the ex-Communist states in the East (i.e Poland), they would have authorised the SVR to conduct "cleanup" operations in its surrounding Muslim countries.