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Iran is no friend of the US.
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And vice-versa. The US has had no diplomats in Tehran for 25 years+ and probably very few spies (there's a rumour that the CIA accidentally compromised their Iranian network recently). So any intelligence coming out of the US is a bit iffy even before you factor in the Iraq element.
People who *are* friends of the Iranians are the Russians and Chinese, who do a lot of business there (Iranian oil powers China which powers a big balance of payments surplus with the USA, humorously). It would be very interesting to ponder what China would do if the neocons start nuking the place. The US isn't the only place anxious about its oil supply not being interrupted.
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They just recently they moved out of a huge amount of 'annexed' land but that didn't seem to satisy anyone either.
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Well, if someone stole my house, kept it for 40 years, then gave me back the garage (having trashed it and while retaining the right to invade the garage if they don't like what I'm doing in it) I wouldn't exactly be putting them on my Christmas card list.