This is why you aren’t making the decisions.
Turkey is a major sanctions busting country for Iran and trading partner. Despite being apart of NATO and Western sphere it constantly rebukes the West and does what it wants and the West allows it because Turkey has too much leverage on the West (supplies the largest amount of troops to NATO).
No other country has stood up to Western pressure and still did continued trade with Iran not even China considering that the only thing China really buys from Iran is oil.
Saudi Arabia is a puppet and Iranian trade with Saudi Arabia was next to nothing. Making a enemy with Saudi Arabia was easy since we had nothing to lose in that relationship.
Losing a friendly relationship with Turkey means all of our spy assets would start getting targeted on Turkish soil, all of our sanctions busting schemes (to the tune of billions of dollars) would get shut down, Airspace would get shutdown from Iranian flights (military and civilian), list goes on etc.
Too much emotions on this board right now.
Yeah, apparently you are making the decisions. lol
So was the United Arab Emirates. The UAE used to be Iran's largest economic hub for connecting to the rest of the world. A role that has been shifted to Turkey in recent years after our relations with the Emirates went sour.
The West does not need Turkey. If they needed Turkey, they would've allowed Turkey in the European Union, something that Turkey has been asking them nicely for decades and yet they have refused it every time. The West isn't really confrontational as long as you don't clearly stand against their interests.
Turkey is benefitting hugely from its trade with Iran. We're talking about billions of dollars of investments in real estate, tourism, etc. The UAE used to do the same for us. What people are doing in Turkey today is nothing new. They used to do it in Dubai.
Saudi Arabia is the leader of the Muslim world for basically every non-Shiite person. Also, Saudi Arabia is one of the three countries that can greatly influence oil market price. It is also the leader of most Arab countries in the world. The short period of amicable ties between Tehran and Riyadh during the 70s flourished the economies of nearly all Middle Eastern countries by regulating oil prices to the benefit of the people in the region. Even today, amicable ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia can completely change the Middle East for the better and hugely benefit the lives of Iranians and Saudis.
That doesn't sound really bad compared to what we have lost by picking the US as our enemy. If you want to talk about logic, then the IRGC and Khamenei himself should put American balls in their mouths and lick them every way they could because the US unilaterally has sanctioned our economy into the corner.
This was the best decision ever made. And it was unconventional.
Yeah, it was the best decision to ruin Iran. 8 years of a deadly pointless war with Iraq, over 2 trillion dollars of damage to our economy in the war, and more trillions of damage after that. Great decision.
It has nothing to do with IRGC. Even a blind man will tell you who the real enemies of Iran are. The most serious and deadly one is the Zionist-US conspiracy against Iran, its people and its identity. If Baku republic is eyeing Azeri areas of Iran, then you should know that Israel is eyeing whole of Iran, all of Iran must come under the control of Israel (US).
Israel does not give a f, it will even murder your entire nation if you go against them some day.
Turkey-Azarbaijan are nowhere near this danger level AT ALL.
LOL. Israel has done nothing against Iran without the help of our neighbors. Name one direct attack on Iran from Israel that did not come from our neighboring countries and did not involve them. I dare you.
That's true about any ultranationalist country. You probably don't know about the Armenian genocide. Do you?