For nearly a century now (since Woodrow Wilson) U.S. policy has been that democratic self-determination of peoples leads to peace, and that peace is in America's interest. The key limitation (as demonstrated by Nazi Germany, for example) is that it only applies if the people and their leaders stick with self-determination and reject the attractions of conquest and imperialism.
The democratic government of Iran has no intentions to create an empire. The democratically elected Palestinian Authority of Hamas also does not have any such plans.
On the other hand, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brunei, the fraudulently elected government of Afghanistan and many more such governments are identified as some of America's "strongest allies". There certainly have been no serious efforts made by the American's or their friends to forcefully grant people within these countries the right of "self-determination". The people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, living under the "largest democracy on Earth", do not enjoy the basic rights of self-determination, and the American's have no issues with that at all.
So, really, what you're saying is that the West decides the legitimacy of a government, democratic or otherwise, based on their perception of it, and acts. Well, that is
exactly what I'm saying.
Conquest and/or empire-building is something Pakistan's leaders have sought since 1965.
How hypocritical can one get? Your country is waging two wars thousands of kilometers away from home with, to be very polite, ill-defined reasons. And still you sit there and accuse us of aspirations of conquest? We, who have done nothing but taken steps to protect the boundaries of our country, are guilty of desires of empire-building whereas you, a country that has done nothing but wage war on foreign lands, are not?
You have, to say the least, a very interesting take on reality.