️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barak said that Iran is "not an evil regime", arguing that its theocratic system is a religious matter that should be respected, while criticizing the role of the Revolutionary Guards towards Israel.

️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barak said that Iran is "not an evil regime", arguing that its theocratic system is a religious matter that should be respected, while criticizing the role of the Revolutionary Guards towards Israel.

His words seem to contradict the Trump administration's stated rationale for confronting Iran militarily.

"If you look at Iran, we all love and admire the Iranian people and understand that the Shiite-Hebrew philosophy, from the ground up since 1979, is a theocracy; it is not an, because it has nothing to do with that, but a religious content and practice that we all respect.

The Revolutionary Guards became an adversary. The Revolutionary Guards and their adversarial role with Israel was a problem."