Quote Originally Posted by HitWithThe5 View Post
Grammar mistake. That may well be true and all but so does Kuwait, and no Gulf state besides Saudi Arabia (who barely surpasses it) executes as many people as Iran does. This sugarcoating of an Islamist society is getting tiresome. The only reason Saudi Arabia is more visibly hostile in its Islamism is because they’re not afraid to draw attention to it, knowing you’ll always back them.

No, days aren't over. They may be a more palatable partner but this doesn’t matter to your government for now and that is why they’ve a mutual defense pact and will side with the Arab Gulf in the event of a cross-gulf confrontation. I've listed only some of the offenses of Iran towards Arabs but this doesn't matter to yourself because you have a problem with Arabs.

It seems that few state officials actually trust Iran, it's only a few guys in this board, and even that's often just because they hate Arabs.
I wouldn't blame them for hating Arabs, considering their long history of "friendship" with the Arab states and the crap they've got in return, plus the fact that the Arab allies are barely any better than Iran, and that being highly debatable. I've never paid much attention to the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam, but I'm currently better disposed to the latter, given that most of the problems we've had have been with the former. Not that I like the latter, but if we need oil from somewhere, I'd rather deal with Iran and Russia than with Saudi Arabia and the rest of that lot. I'd rather deal with people whom I dislike and distrust than with people whom I despise.