Neocons rooting for regime change or war have not even slight clue on what makes Iranians tick , can be easily seen by US pet terror group MEK , you know the ones where Bolton and Lindsay hold paid speeches,US admin saved from Iraq-Iranian wipeout and relocated to Albania in hopes of eventually using them in Iran , MEK has no popular following trying to hoist them onto power would be rejected by Iranians en masse ,Regime change in Iran would cost millions of lives , war with iran would dwarf Iraq and Afganistan cost vise. Indeed like in Turkey and many other Muslim countries relatively poor rural populace is the one that provides the support to 'Regime' ,urban populace is quite liberal. Ironicaly sanctions are galvanising the Goverment and its parastructures the Quds , greatest gift tho their hold on power . You have to see how economies adapt to sanctions , whole aconomy gets rerouted trough Rigime players that rack massive income as they are the ones controling the spigot. In absence of sanctions regimes much of trade bypases Quds so the sanctions are far from what their architects envision. On much larger scale its kinda like alchohol prohibition that fueled bad actors ,,,
I have some first had experience with touring Iran pre and post JCPOA , when you are on a plane in Tehran and it starts rolling down the tarmac , whole cabin comes alive, women are massively changing clothes scarves are getting put away i have never seen anything like that, Literaly before plane gets airborne female passengers change from ME to Western standard would be funny to have a picture of passengers pre and post flight . Extensive plastic surgery experience developed in country post Iran-Iraq war treating milions of wounded also kicked of mass adoption of plastic surgery among women folk , probably second only to Brazil
Its probably the only ME country when guberment hates but plebs adore US , in most others places in ME its the other way around . Iranians are your biggest fans , they have quite naive near a Hollywood image of US .
Indeed 90+% of islamic terror is Salafi/Wahabi strain that was exported into the world by Sauds to the tune of some 300billion $ ,with tacit approval of western governments. Note everywhere you look in ME , its seems ISIS ,ISIS light or AQ are the preferred admins.