The Russians and Iranians came to an ‘understanding’ very early on.

Both the Soviet and American embassies were stormed; the difference? The Soviet ambassador told the ‘students’: ‘get out, or Tehran will cease to exist within the hour.’ They left. The American Embassy? I think we all know how that story turned out.

Who do the Iranians respect? Where do their mullas go to make deals, bank their looted funds, party with long-legged blond hookers, and swill ‘forbidden’ hooch? Hint: it ain’t Vegas baby.

You can argue as to who using whom, but I view Iran as Moscow’s ‘cats paw’, against us and Western Europe. Just as the PRC is using militant islam as a cats paw against us. Note that as we chase and ‘beat-down’ the jihadis across the planet [by no means a worthless task...], the PRC is scooping up everything of value unhindered [not that DoS would be capable do anything useful to stop them...].

Things are never as simple as we’d like them to be.