Iran and US future allies?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

You know that old saw about politics and bedfellows.

In 1918 the USA participated in an invasion of the Soviet Union and actively supported the White Russian military and the Czech legion. Despite business connections throughout the 1920s, the USA did not recognize the Soviet Union as the legitimate government of Russia until 1933. While formal relations existed from that point, the US mood toward the Soviet Union with its purges and mass starvations was fairly negative, peaking in 1939 with American disgust over the Non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. A little over two years later we are their military allies and the US merchant marine is risking lives to get trucks to the Soviets.

Alliances are not always friendships and none of us can tell with certainty what the future will bring 10 years hence.