If you could fight your own war then you won't need our help at all. Look at how Israel failed at its Lebanon campaign, was it not all thanks to Iran? If we can manage to help a small country that far away with 1/30 of Pakistans population without support from its government to withstand and kick out the Israelis, just imagine what we can do together.
I dont trust India, I respect Pakistan as well, the Pakistani national anthem (Pak sar zameen) is written in Farsi, and even Pakistan is farsi. No one wants a closer Pakistan-Iran relation than me. I used to think that the first muslim country that will come to our aid and the only muslim country that would never betray Iran is Pakistan until I saw you join the SA anti-Iran military coalition. But Im not sure why Pakistan did that to be honest.
Do you honestly think that Turkey cares about what happens to Pakistan? They only think about themselves. They share no obligation with Pakistan. Iran shares obligation with Pakistan as we are truly brother nations, we even share the same DNA. A Suppressed pakistani is a suppressed Iranian If only we could learn to put aside the Shia-Sunni hate.
U r thinking of Pakistan as choosing sides in different terms. As if choosing one automatically means going against the other. On world stage it doesn't necessarily work like that.
As far as countries go:
Every country balances relations with others based on interests. India still has a good relationship with Russia and is moving closer to US. Pak maintained good relations(during Cold War) with both China and US even when they(US and China) didn't see eye to eye with each other. International relations/alignments are purely interest based and are not a zero sum game.
As far as public goes:
As for the Pakistanis...I can't speak for all Pakistanis but from my experience, Pakistanis don't see Iran/Iranis in a negative light. To us Iran is a Muslim country. In fact before WoT(last decade or so) there wasn't even much of a Shia/Sunni division in Pakistan and by extension it didn't affect our view of Iran(being Shia majority) negatively, nor it should. Pakistanis are the only ppl u will find(as compared to Muslims of other nationalities) that still carry on the "Ummah" thing. When Pak embarked on its nuclear weapons program it was termed Islamic Bomb. Pakistanis still long for a greater cooperation/unity among Muslim countries.
In my opinion there are only two things holding Pak/Iran back from being close allies.
For Iran it is:
- Deep rooted rivalry with KSA. So deep that it views other countries in a manner of zero sum game. If some country allies with KSA, Iran would be at best neutral to that country and nothing more.
- Deep rooted Shia/Sunni mentality. Iran provides support(allies itself) to countries that have Shia majority and is estranged with most Muslim countries with Sunni majority.
For Pakistan it is:
- Lack of trust(somewhat) towards Iran bcuz of its relationship with India.
- Pressure from Arab countries to not become an ally of Iran.
I do wish to see more unity/coordination between Muslim countries(regardless of Shia/Sunni or Arab/Non Arab BS) but I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. I just wanted to clarify that based on my experience, I haven't seen any ill will towards Iran by Pakistanis. Whatever is happening on world stage has more to do with interests and what not.
