> really wish we would get collectively obsessed with this
Idem. Spot on.-
Sadly that takes a (global) level of stability that we are well outside of nowadays.-
Not to mention how - peculiarly - these sites tend to be around hotspots themselves?
Idem. Spot on.-
Sadly that takes a (global) level of stability that we are well outside of nowadays.-
Not to mention how - peculiarly - these sites tend to be around hotspots themselves?
The fact that it happens to be an autocratic fundamentalist theocracy in a regional power struggle with a quasi-autocratic quasi-theocratic ethnostate, involved in a complicated web of alliances with both regional and distant nation-states -- some of which are the strongest powers in the world -- is sort of a coincidence.
But Iran has been important on a continental scale for ~forever, and that certainly has led to a history of it being an attractant for powers great and small to interact with whoever happens to occupy the region at the time. Whether that's trying to conquer it or making alliances or whatever.