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This is an overly simplistic way to look at foreign relations. Iran can do plenty of "bad shit" to the U.S. and the world without ever leaving its own geographic borders. It's the same reason why the oil embargo during WW2 led Japan into the war, even though we weren't technically doing anything within Japan's borders. And it's the same reason most of the world views the Iranian nuclear program with suspicion.