I have respect for every people in the world, except the Welsh.

The Iranian people certainly is doing impressive things, no thanks to their regime though. I'm glad the regime is not a puppet to the Empire, but they're not exactly doing great things for their people - it's like the anti-imperialists version of Ukraine.

My point is that it is easy to bully smaller states, even if they have large amounts of oil, but it becomes much harder when you do it to a country like Russia, and it will be suicide if they try it with China.