Why is Iran despised in USA?

Express Tribune

2 days ago

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In the Soviet Union, after World War II, the government awarded mothers that gave birth to many babies. It was called the Order of Maternal Glory. The higher the number of babies, the higher the class of the award. The war was won on the back of the Russians, who had lost about 11 million soldiers in winning the war. Mother Russia wanted more Russians. They had a population collapse problem to deal with.
I remember a similar speech I had the chance of watching here in Houston. The speech was delivered by a former CIA and NSA chief named Michael Hayden. In his typical Cold War driven mentality, he made the case that Russia today also suffered from a similar population problem and that Russia was again running out of Russians.
Well, Israel has the same problem but not many talk about it. One of the ways Israel can collapse is also through population collapse. And that is where Iran comes into this equation. Iran is the only country in that region that has always defied American and Israeli pressure as well as their designs, at least after the 1979 revolution. The Arab world may not be willing to recognise Israel or may play this ready and not-yet-ready-to-recognise dance, they may also broadcast Al Jazeera, but truth be told, they are no threat to Israel or to American plans for the region. That is the reason they occasionally face mild critique from the US president and the US media but that is as far as they go.
Iran may not have the muscle to defeat Israel, it may not have the means to resist Israeli plans for the region, but it sure has the will and courage to resist those designs. Iran has refused to play by the rules of the American and the Israeli hegemonic games at every step of the way. But that is not the main reason why Iran is despised so much in the American power corridors.
Iran has not only shown the capability to hit Israel but has also shown the will to do that despite the overwhelmingly dangerous repercussions. People move to Israel from other parts of the world especially the United States and Europe because they believe in Zionism, and they want a free home by taking over Palestinian homes. Think about it for a moment; if Israel becomes this dangerous place that can be hit anytime the Iranians want to, then no educated and wealthy Jew who wants to settle in Israel for Zionism would want to go there, even if the house is free. And certainly not if the house would have to be purchased.
If you look at the Israeli literature, that is one of the main worries they also express. If Israel is turned into this ghetto where life and property are not safe then no Jewish family with resources and education would want to settle there, even for the sake of Zionism. Israel would face a population collapse problem just like the Russians did. But the Russians faced that problem due to millions of deaths in war, the Israelis would simply mass migrate elsewhere, in search of safe havens.
Only the ones who don't have the resources to move out and the ones who wouldn't mind living in the ghettos would stay. And if we know even just a little by looking at any country, the poor and the unwanted citizens have never been the ones any government ever cared about. They will eventually resemble the Palestinians. Nobody would care about their plight. Israel will become this land filled with ghettos separated by vast distances of nothing in between. Just paved roads from the glorious past when no country dared attacking this fake state and America was always willing to bend backwards for Israel's war thirsty bratty attitude.
And very simply; whomever Israel despises, American politicians and the American media would also despise. That's how things work in America.