Iranians are Persian and have a history of conflict with Arabs in the Middle East. So yeah, not the same thing at all.
And Syria is Iran's closest ally.
And Syria is Iran's closest ally.
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Aren't they people from that area?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people
pardon my lack of a better reference, but if you have a better one, please post
...What war machine??? The tanks, and equipment were over 20 years old and the men weren't even trained...
Well they live in the same "area" as you say, but they get along as well as the Europeans did with each other, which is not at all because of cultural/religous differences. Aside from the obvious world wars, look at England and Ireland.
I am not going to quote wikiarticles, but Persians (Iran) and Arabs are different... maybe you should look it up more before you start pointing out their "problems".
The issue is that their "enemies" are internal. This is a conflict about modernization, civil rights, and self determination made far more complicated by foreign interest in their natural resources.
Despite all our talk about protecting ourselves from terrorists. the biggest victims of muslim extremists are other muslims. In many Arab nations, the voices of the moderate majority are drowned out by extremists with guns.
In my view, the developed nations have a responsibilty to those people as human beings who have committed no crime other than to be born unlucky. That is why we support the voices of the moderate states ( eg:Jordan, Turkey, and even Saudi Arabia)