You'be been duped by a lifetime of propaganda, BB, into automatically seeing certain people in the World as "bad guys" if your government says they are. Iran is no threat to the USA, but the USA is gearing up to attack Iran, in my opinion. The USA is not doing it to protect Israel! I laugh at the notion of that. The USA protects no one and nothing except its corporate profits. The USA would flush Israel down the toilet in an instant if Israel stood in the way of its corporate profits...but Israel does not stand in the way. Iran presently stands in the way, because:

1. It has a lot of oil.
2. It is not a USA puppet yet.
3. It is on an important potential oil shipping route from the Caspian region.
4. It's the latest convenient "enemy" of choice for a regime that wants continual war or threat of war, though in truth Iran is not really an enemy at all. What it is, is a small country that has already been persecuted severely in the recent past by the USA, and has had the nerve to kick out an American-backed dictator (the Shah) and remain defiantly independent of American policy.

None of the above means I admire Iran's government or its religious fanatics. I don't admire them in the least. But I recognize their right to govern themselves as a sovereign nation and to shoot their own mouths off in an idiotic and aggressive fashion if they so desire...just the way American evangelists and politicians do all the time. Every nation has that right as a given. It's not illegal to make inflammatory statements. What no nation has the right to do is to launch pre-emptive wars on other countries that have launched no direct physical attack on them.