Iran is not socialist, but the loss of Iran in 1979 was one of the biggest defeat US imperialism ever had. Under the Shah, it was their most lucrative colony. And whatever everyone seems to ignore is that Trump's political career was sponsored by the fracking industry, which was on the verge of collapsed due to overproduction. They have motives to destroy Iran that go well beyond the Zionist lobby. "Israel's" hatred of Iran, like its conflict with Egypt and Syria when they were nationalist, is one of the things that makes it so valuable to US imperialism