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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I would say Iran is an enemy to Canada. Iran has orchestrated terrorist plots against our NATO allies and other countries that are considered friendly to Canada. They also have no trouble contributing to the murder of Ukrainian civilians. The fact we haven't been on their radar is more fortuitous hapstance.
It's all about perspective, but I'd still rather be a neighbour of the U.S. as opposed to a neighbour of Iran, and I suspect most countries in the ME would feel the same. As ####ty as the U.S. has been to us lately, it's nothing compared to what Iran does. Look at the stuff ICE has been doing in America, then imagine that x10,000 in Iran. Or the various Iranian proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, #####e militias in Iraq, the former Iranian supported Assad regime, and several other Iranian supported militants in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan. The U.S. has nothing like that operating on Canadian soil (at least not yet). But if you are a neighbouring country of Iran, you can pretty much count on it happening.
Iran is only limited by their resources, but not by their intent. We just feel the negative impacts from the U.S. more directly and it makes sense to worry about the small fires in our own back yard than the big fires half a planet away.
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I don't particularly like Iran's regime, or Hamas, Hezbollah or the Houthis but I also see the very existence of all of them as a direct result of the ####ty things we have been doing to them for the last 80 or so years, we kick the crap out of them, steal their land depose their elected leaders and help keep our chosen despotic murderous scumbags in charge of them and then whine like children when they quite reasonably don't much like us