[anon291]

The United States has called for an end to the theocracy, but we love the Iranian people and culture. More realistically, we probably would be happy to tolerate the theocracy if they simply normalized relations and deferred to America. America's a very easy nation to get along with. You do what we say and you will be made very rich and have peace. It's a pretty straightforwards bargain.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

It seems that Iran is an exception to such US conviviality. See, the US under the Obama administration, the EU Russia, China and others signed a deal with Iran to alleviate sanctions in return for an end to Iran's nuclear program.

The Iran nuclear deal framework was a preliminary framework agreement reached in 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers: the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China—plus Germany) and the European Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal_framework

Then the US, under the Trump administration, withdrew from the deal:

The United States withdrew from the pact in 2018 and new sanctions were imposed under the policy of "maximum pressure". The sanctions applied to all countries and companies doing trade or business with Iran and cut it off from the international financial system, rendering the nuclear deal's economic provisions null.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

[text0404]

if i come to your house and hold a gun to your head and your option is death or slavery, is that really a "bargain"?

[boffinAudio]

>we love the Iranian people and culture.

Total nonsense. The USA's criminal sanctions regime has only hurt the Iranian people, not its theocracy.