Well you see, almost immediately after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, there arose a conflict about who should succeed him. These faction eventually became the Shia and Sunni faiths, which are the dominant strains of Islamic in the Middle-east. As the largest Shia nation, Iran funds Islamic terrorists proxies throughout the Middle-east; Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Jordan, Houthis in Yemen, various death squads in Iraq, and this is massively destabilizing to that part of the world. To be fair, the Shia minority in many of these countries has a legitimate fear of being genocided by the majority Sunnis which lends popular support to these groups. Many of these proxies threaten also Saudi Arabia and Israel who are considered US allies. Fun fact, the US stationing female soldiers in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm was one of the justifications Osama Bin Laden used for the 9/11 attacks. These days the US role in Saudi Arabia is mostly missile defense from Iran proxies. Israel especially is threatened by Iran, who frequently articulates a desire to wipe Israel off the map and in turn Israel has strongly encouraged US actions that weaken Iran. Supposedly it was Benjamin Netanyahu who encouraged the Bush administration to launch a ground invade of Iraq, after years of sanctions and non-fly zones, with the purpose of destroying Iraq's nuclear weapons program. With Iraq now too much of a dysfunctional democracy to pose much threat to Israel or Kuwait these days, Iran remains the second biggest threat to the survival of Israel after Israel's own parasitic and rapidly growing Ultra-Orthodox jew population that pays no taxes, preforms no military service, and largely subsists on welfare. Iran has been known to be working on obtaining a nuclear bomb for years. Some say the 2015 Nuclear Disarmament Accord worked out by the Obama administration would have solved this problem, but it did leave the Iran proxies problem unsolved. It was all a mute point anyway when Trump ripped up the accord and reinstated the crippling sanctions on Iran. Intelligence sources claim Iran has come within a few months of being able to build a nuclear bomb. There are also rumors that Rubio, as the secretary of state is pushing aggressive foreign action for his upcoming presidential run, and the relative easy regimen change in Venezuela mislead the administration into thinking Iran's leadership could similarly be quickly decapitated and replaced. However, the DOD was caught off guard by Iran advanced and cheap drone technology, which the Trump administration has largely neglected in favor of more conventional military hardware like tanks. This whole thing could be easily resolved if Israel would just hurry up and build the third temple and then hopefully Jesus will return to earth and put us all out of our misery. You might want to run this post through ChatGPT, I'm mostly just repeating what I've read and I'm sure I got at least a few facts wrong.