History is the best source, as it shows iran got into this regime because of us intervention.
Videos of woman without burkas walking freely in teheran also do not fit the propaganda.
The getting attacked and acting moderate in defense.
The easiest way is to put all actions the us isreal has taken against iran and ask them in reverse rolls, if they would find them just or evil.
While the Europe s democratic prozess is pretty bad, I don't think they are imperialists. They might be tied to the US which now strives for imperalist expansion, but the eu does not show imperialist behavior, like trying to expand territory. At least not by definition.
What do you mean by getting of natural gas? Its now liquid natural gas, which takes like 10 times more energy to ship and they are building more gas infrastructure.
They for sure made the calculation, how many leave maybe 10-20% if we are lucky. How many stay and give them the right to sell their most sensitive data. How much money do they make with the data? Its more than they lose for sure.
And the progressive tax on workers is way higher than on business.