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Originally Posted by Azure
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To be fair, Flash stipulated that Iran had not "attacked" anyone in thousands of years. In the Iran-Iraq war, the Iraqis were the aggressors.
On the other hand, Iran is known to have a covert hand in arming militant groups outside of Iran--Hezbollah being the classic example, but recently there are indications that Iran is arming Shi'a militia groups in Iraq, something the U.S. is not crazy about.
Of course, this is a problem of the U.S.'s own making. By toppling Iraq's Sunni ruling class, they have essentially, in the long term, radically shifted the power balance between Sunni and Shi'a in the middle-east. As a result, it's not wrong to say that the U.S. invasion of Iraq has emboldened Iran and made them more powerful in the region. They're also free to rattle their Sabres because they know that the U.S. is bluffing; they no more have the military might to invade Iran than Canada does.