"We should work to undermine it and to support the Iranian people and their desire for a more stable and inclusive government form." I'm with you otherwise, but you lost me here: American subterfuge against sovereign governments is how this all got started in the first place, and nobody knows that better than the Iranians.

"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart...But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force..." - John Q. Adams

I was referring to the CIA led overtheow of an elected PM and replacing him with the Shah. Of course Iran had been a colonial pawn of the Russians and the Brits before that and the Ottomans before that.

Ah, an isolationist. I will simply note that this is no longer the early 18th century and we are no longer a hardscrabble rabble trying to stand up a nation. The isolationist impulse isn't new, it was common at the dawn of the 20th century and again as the Depression started to bite. Neither survived reality Fortress America then was an illusion, today a dangerous delusion.