> I don't think Europe is crazy about Iran having ballistic missiles armed with Nuclear warheads either
That just fear mongering. Iran is neither developing missiles that can carry warheads, nor do they have the nuclear material for warheads nor do they have the technology for warheads.
The missles Iran are developing are conventional missiles for mid-range applications. They actual understand that Europe doesn't want them to be able to attack Europe.
In fact Saudi Arabia and pretty much every other country has missiles. In fact Saudi Arabia illigally bought intercontinental missles from China and were not held accountable at all, but Iran is supposed to beg to be allowed even basic missles?
Demanding that Iran can not have missles when everybody else has them is unreasonable.
> Iran is responsible for destabilising oil supplies recently
Iran has 'destabalised' oil supply far less then constant arab and US oil polices. For most of its history Iran was consistant conservative oil producers and they are still.
Its frankly laughable for the West to claim 'Iran' is destabalizing the oil market, given things like Iraq War. Multible massive embargos against countries like Iran, Iraq and so on.
> is 100% responsible for arming Hezbollah
Hezbollah is no longer a pure subsidiary as it was in the past. They are independned power that allied with Iran. They still get some of their important arms from Iran, but to think of Hezbollah as '100% reliant on Iran' is a wrong.
> and of course extends it's influence to Yemen
Iran had no interest in Yemen and had basically no relationship with Houthi. The Houthi took over Yemen before they were really supported by Iran. Only once the Saudis started a full on war against them, did Iran change its policy and started to support the Houthi in order to bleed Saudi Arabia.
Iran didn't cause anything in Yemen and the Houthi are no-where near the same relationship with them as they have with Hezbollah. The Houthis are just a group that is fighting Saudi Arabia for its own reason and Iran using Saudi Arabia bad polices against them.
Its Western and Saudi stupidity that they handed the Houthi to Iran, as the Houthi were actually more or less payed of by the Saudis for a long time and even had good relations with the West.
> Saudi Arabia is doing none of that and doesn't seem to care that much about building an empire of "influence" around the middle east.
Maybe you simply don't pay attention to Middle East politics but that is an absurd statment.
- Saudi Arabia just reasently kidnapped the prime minister of Lebanon.
- The enacted a blockade of Qatar
- The funded the Egyption Military Coup against Muslim Brothers and democracy
- They are fighting a war in Yemen (more agressive then anything Iran has done in 100 years)
- They are fighting a proxy war against UAE in Yemen as well (just for good measure)
- They activly try to change Islam to make it more like their own (Wahhabism) both in the ME and world wide
- They clearly funded very nasty groups in Syria including ISIS (early on) and later groups like Al-Nusra
The list goes on and on ...
> I don't think it's "crazy" to go with U.S demands. it requires letting go of ego and the dream of the shiite revolution and empire I guess, or at least postponing it. It's like saying Kim from North Korea is would be crazy to let go of his crazy regime, how is that crazy?
Iran has already given up pretty much everything that is reasonable yet it has absolutly no effect on the policy that persue.
They have no nuclear weapons program and that has been confirmed by all intellegence services. They don't even demand the full rights they have under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. They signed the extended treaty and then to double reassure the international community the signed the most restrictive nuclear treaty in the history of the IAEA. They observed the signed treaty and that was confirmed over and over again by IAEA. The effect, US didn't release sanction but betrayed the treaty and recreated the sanction. But yet you still demand that Iran changes the way its doing things?
In terms of rocket development they have already, without even a treaty, stopped the program to develop intercontinental missiles.
So yes, Iran is treated incredibly unfairly in the international system specially considering their historical role, practical power and ability to work with the West if their is mutual interst (such as nuclear treaty, fighting ISIS, fighting Taliban and so on) this is incredibly unreasonable and totally hypocritical.
And yes, for the leaders of those countries, simply giving up would be crazy. As most likly they and their famillies would be killed.