Iran is paying price for nuclear weapons program, and North Korea is paying much bigger price than Iran.
Pure rehashing of zionist / US propaganda. Iran's nuclear program is a civilian, peaceful one, even though it allowed Iran to become a nuclear threshold state - which is perfectly legal in international law and thus not a valid justification for sanctions (Japan, south Korea, Germany and others are threshold states too, but are not sanctioned). Therefore, Iran's nuclear program is merely played up and sensationalized as a pretext by western powers and their zionist masters. The real reasons for their hostility against Iran lie of course elsewhere.
The US imposed its first sanctions against the Islamic Republic only a few months after the Victory of the 1979 Revolution. And the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) or d'Amato Law, the centerpiece of the anti-Iranian sanctions scheme, dates from 1996, long before Iran started being falsely accused by Washington and Tel Aviv about its nuclear program. Better to learn the history of the topic before commenting on it.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is incomparable to Iran under many aspects (much smaller domestic market, much fewer natural ressources, less allies, smaller diaspora, no geostrategically crucial location etc), hence why sanctions affect it differently.
Nothing to do with Palestinians.
It has everything to do with Islamic Iran's anti-imperialist and anti-zionist foreign policy, which primarily revolves around Tehran's principled and selfless assistance to the Palestinian Resistance (but isn't limited to it, given how Iran is challenging zio-American hegemony across the entire region and beyond). Hence the rabid, out-of-the-ordinary hostility, unprecedented propaganda campaign, recurrent sabotage and terrorism as well as the extensive sanctions regime Iran has been subjected to by global hegemonic powers right from 1979 onward.
Another proof for this is that the west has always explicitly and clearly treated the nuclear deal or JCPoA as a first step towards similar agreements on Iran's
regional policy and ballistic missile arsenal. The request for Tehran to end any and all military support to the Palestinian Resistance (and to its other allies) is a permanent and prominent feature Washington's policy towards Iran.
Since you are liar and propagandist looking to influence Muslim public opinion on Persia/Persian culture, you want to make it out to be some sacrifice for Palestinians.
Baseless slander and ad hominem / insult by a person with a bias against Islamic Iran and therefore shaken by the fact that Iran leads the way in supporting the Palestinian Resistance and in empowering the global struggle against zionism.
Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and many others all hosted Palestinian officials, groups, and allowed funding for them or directly funded them in the past before. This is not unique to Iran.
Strawman.
Original proposition: "we must applaud Islamic Iran for its
unparalleled efforts in assisting and
arming the Palestinian Resistance".
So yes, Iran's role has clearly been far more important and significant than that of any other state.
Of course the Syrian Arab Reoublic under the leadership of presidents Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, as well as Lebanon (mainly Hezbollah) have aided the Palestinian Resistance in various ways. Which is why Iran came to Syria's rescue when western-sponsored armed groups threatened to overthrow the government there.
Sudan is out of the picture since the recent western- and zionist-engineered "regime change". And when Khartoum was participating in this effort, it was actually in a close strategic and military cooperation with Islamic Iran inaugurated as far back as the early 1990's (Iran is the one which largely set up Sudan's local defence industries, and Sudan was in fact working with Tehran by allowing its territory to be used as a transit route for Iranian weapons destined to Gaza etc).
Tunisia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are largely a thing of the past in this regard. Especially the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, which are currently engaged in a treasonous process of normalization with Tel Aviv.
But most importantly, evoking the past when the original proposition deals with the present, fulfills all criteria of how a the definition of a strawman argument.
Keep in mind Iraq under Saddam actually fired ballistic missiles on Israel, unlike Iran.
Only after being attacked by the US. Under the same circumstances (i. e. if under an fully fledged, large scale military aggression by the US), Iran would not only fire ballistic missiles at the zionist regime, but take even more drastic measures.
One can only compare what is comparable. Obfuscating the circumstances in which an event takes places is profoundly unscientific, and will always lead to erroneous conclusions if not to baseless analogies like the one quoted above.
And they had worse sanctions and consequences than Iran had to face.
Worse sanctions, no. At present Iran is the most sanctioned country in history.
Worse consequences yes, but that is solely due to the fact that Iraq's degree of economic self-sufficiency and resilience was much lower than Iran's.
So do not come here to exaggerate things.
No exaggeration whatsoever on my part. Only facts, hard hitting ones, coupled with solid enough logic (however unpleasant for persons whose thinking may be marred by some long-standing, ingrained bias against Islamic Iran).
As I said, you suffer from narcissistic personality disorder which twists everything in your mind to make it so that anything that occurs in the world or is achieved by others is credited to Iran.
Ad hominem, reported.
Also, my comments yet need to be challenged in a logically and factually sound manner, which is far from having taken place.
And in your crazy mind you think this will increase public support for Iranian regime.
Third ad hominem in a single post, a clear sign of desperation stemming from an incapacity to produce any valid counter-arguments.
Reminding some facts and giving credit where it's due (in this case, to Islamic Iran for its outstanding efforts and sacrifices in resisting zionism and imperialism, something Muslims and free people worldwide recognize and are grateful for) is not a sign of craziness nor does it necessarily point to a political agenda, it is actually something every person with a sense of dignity, equity and righteousness should want to do.
Trying to minimize or even deny Iran's role however, is playing into the hands of the zionist enemy.
