I honestly don't get what's so special about Iran.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

46. They have every right to feel resentment towards America and the west, but that doesn't justify...

...attacking us, nor does it mean that we should sit back and take it when they do.

None of that justifies the current "war" or whatever it is--I'm not saying that.

I was just saying that they have in fact been attacking us and our allies.

Interesting aside:
Brittan's (and Europe's) involvement in Iranian politics goes back further than oil. Like all things British, one of the big issues was tobacco. At the end of the Anglo-Persian war in 1857, the Qajar government was forced to grant countless concessions to foreign powers. The 1890 tobacco concession granting control over growth, sale, and export of tobacco to an Englishman, Major G. F. Talbot, set off the Persian Tobacco Protest which climaxed in a widely obeyed December 1891 fatwa against tobacco use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Protest

The first commercial discovery of oil in Iran occurred on May 26, 1908--almost 20 years after the Persian Tobacco Protest.

They could have made the choice to be a constructive part of the region after the 1979 revolution, but their decision to back Shia militancy across the region to combat Sunni influence and establish Iranian dominance in the Arab world led them to be in the position they find themselves today. It is why they find themselves with no real friends in the region willing or able to come to their aid now.