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1. The regime change we brought about in Iraq removed a mortal enemy of Iran and put into power a corrupt and very friendly government government to Iran. This made Iran the most powerful Muslim nation in the Middle East.
So what if Iraq...under Saddam...was a mortal enemy of Iran? That didn't ever stop Iran from advancing it's agenda and actions. Actually, they are no more...or less...powerful now than before the fall of Saddam.
2. The Iranians know their actions now have little consequence other than economic sanctions because they know that after we spent 10 years and trillions of dollars nation building in Iraq, the citizens of the United States are simply not going to stand for another full scale war in the Middle East for at least another generation.
3. We cannot bring on other nations because just 10 years ago we lied to the world about the supposed threat that Iraq posed to world peace as well as Iraq's supposed massive stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons that didn't exist. Not to mention their purported advanced nuclear weapons program that didn't exist. Thus we no longer have any credibility with the rest of the world.
4. Iran has no incentive to cooperate with any type of U.N. weapons inspections because it did not prevent war in Iraq despite the fact weapons inspectors were in the country finding nothing other than what was already known and accounted for. Moreover, they now have every incentive to develop nuclear weapons as a safeguard against any attempts at regime change from the United States.
The rest of your post actually supports my last statement about the lack of action by various governments in containing Iran.
Bush, at least, had a plan to hem in Iran so that the US could put more pressure on them. Thanks to the piss poor foreign policy actions by Obama and his administration...especially Hillary...we now find ourselves in the position we are in now: Iran STILL being the danger that Bush told us about and Al Qaeda and its offshoots and ISIS making bigger moves and even threatening more terrorist attacks here in the US.