[TorqueDog]

You can oppose yet another reckless and senseless US military incursion without laundering the Iranian regime into some misunderstood victim. Two things can be true.

The Iranian regime has agency. It funds, arms, and directs violent proxies because that serves its interests, not because history somehow forced its hand. And sure, western meddling is part of the story. The 1953 coup was significant in shaping the Iran that followed, and pretending otherwise is historical horse-blinders. But jumping from that to 'therefore every terror proxy is basically the fault of the west' is self-flagellating fan fiction.