TBF, that applies more to invading Ukraine.
Iran is in such a different level that it didn’t even become a classical blunder. It has just been right-out impossible through most of history.
Even though we have that famous “if you attack Persia a powerful empire will fall” one, that Trump managed to quote.
Yes, competent propaganda doesn’t lie. There are enough reasons to badmouth any country out there, if you need to invent a completely fictitious narrative, you are just bad at it.