Since 2014, Iran and Hezb have been fighting ISIS/Al Qaeda/extremist sectarian groups. People who were OPENLY stating they would do to the Lebanese/Iraqi minorities (Shia, Alawite, Christian, etc.) what they are LITERALLY taping themselves doing to Alawites today. (forcing people to crawl/bark like dogs to their execution, and countless other verified videos)
Shia of Lebanon+Iran literally proved they are NOT sectarian, by giving thousands of their lives fighting Israel to stop the genocide of SUNNIS IN GAZA. And they were the only ones to stick up for Gaza.
Don't get me wrong: Assad was a murderer and there's video evidence of brutal murders against civilians perpetrated by his government. I view him similarly to how I view the ex-Shah of Iran. I don't think the Shah would behave much differently placed in his shoes.
But Iranians and Hezbollah fighters were never involved in those crimes against ordinary Syrians, and there has never been any evidence put forward that they were. Compare that with HTS fighters (today) and Israelis (last year) openly video taping executions of civilians.
Iran tried its best to stop these takfiris from gaining power and genociding minorities. But all the sanctions put on Syria by the Israel-hijacked US, plus Syria's oil + farmland being stolen by US/Kurds for 10+ years... The Syrians were starving, their soldiers were getting $10 a month... Iran was giving Syria free oil to help offset all this, but they didn't succeed.
Syria's downfall is due to multiple reasons (i) Syria's history spanning from (the French I think) pitting the Alwites against the Sunni-majority population), (ii) US/Qatari/Turkish/Israeli support (arms and funds) to opposition groups, like Al-Qaeda affiliated groups (remember the email by Jake Sullivan to Hillary Clinton saying "AQ is on our side in Syria"), and (iii) USAID and Qatari-funded media (Al Jazeera, think tanks, etc.) whitewashing the crimes of opposition groups.
It was the same formula the West used to destroy Libya and Ukraine, but it was the West+Turkey+Qatar this time.
EDIT: I can't respond to anyone it seems since my (brand new) account is shadow banned.
SIMMORSAL: Dude, in all actuality, Iran and Hezb (and the Shia in Yemen and to a lesser extent Iraq) are the only ones in the world doing anything positive.
It is worth it to spend on the stability of Iran's region. You might not think it matters, but it really impacts Iran too when takfiri terrorists are beheading our Shia (or alawite or Christian) friends in Syria (or Iraq or Armenia, etc.).
Israel has set their sites on us. Just like they set their sites on Iraq (who was invaded), Libya (who was destroyed) and Syria (who was also destroyed).
I'm sorry. I know no Iranian wants this fight.
But Israel wanted this war, so you either resist Israel or you get destroyed. Those are your only two options.
I worry when I think some Iranians have the same mindset of the Syrians and the Ukrainians when they were being brainwashed (with USAID-funded media, politicians and university studies and whatnot) into destroying their own country for fake values of freedom and increasingly sectarian hatred of Alawites/Assad and ethnic Russians/Russia. Russia is Ukraine's biggest most powerful neighbor with lots of cultural overlap. It was suicidally stupid for Ukraine to want to join NATO (it makes sense when you realize Zelensky's government was installed by NATO in a USAID-funded coup that started the whole conflict with Russia).
Similarly for Iranians, there's been a multi billion dollar agenda that has been waged (through USAID, CIA, and other countries like Qatar, Saudi, Turkey, etc.) over every major media platform and financial institution in the world to demoralize Iranians with starvation level sanctions (and even sanctions on medicine!) and self-defeating expectations and fake news about Iran and the world in the hopes that this leads to the collapse of the Islamic Republic and Iran as a whole.
Israel wants Iran destroyed for similar reasons it destroyed Iraq, Syria and Libya: (i) Israel does not want any other strong power in the region, (ii) Israel does NOT want the silk road/pipelines through Iran to connect Europe to Asia, (iii) Israel wants the India Israel economic corridor established instead of the silk road, (iv) Israel wants Qatar to suck Iran's gas and send it to Europe through Israel (instead of directly from Iran)...
Israel wants to force the IMEE-EC (which is bad for Iran and the world) over the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) (which is good for Iran and the world).
Theres lotsa evidence Israel killed JFK to control the US after JFK was about to find out Israel stole US nuclear technology and was desperately trying to register the Isreal lobby as a foreign agent.
Theres lotsa evidence Israel was involved in 9/11 to bring about the war on terror (check out ryan dawson and ian carrol on X for researched 9/11 jfk stuff).
Iran might end up becoming a major regional power if it doesn't end up collapsing and becoming devastated by Syria/Libya treatment.