It's geopolitics.
The Iranians, especially Quds, are responsible for a lot of crap around the world and especially in the middle east.
They funded, equipped, trained and operated with Iraqis against coalition forces.
Trump took the opportunity to take him out and show he would use force when it was needed.
Then he proceeded to offer peace terms in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And they came to the peace table. Just like the North Koreans did. And the way the Chinese backed off of Taiwan. And the way the Russians went quiet on Ukraine.
Remember he was an unknown entity on the global leader stage when he started, but the press said he was crazy man who wanted to nuke the world.
This operation (and the strike against Syrians/Russians) showed other leaders that he wouldn't mess around, but was willing to talk peace instead of war.
Those operations, though you may not like or understand them, are orders of magnitude better than what is normally down. Normally our leaders manufacture lies, or false flags, against an enemy, then attack that, mostly, innocent enemy.
I will take the man who killed a few strategic targets then started (successful) peace negotiations with our most entrenched enemies over someone who will overthrow democratically elected governments, invade innocent sovereign nations and murder millions of civilians just to move LockheedMartins share price up a bit.
But that's just me.
No no no... It's got to be everything exactly perfectly or Alles ist qwautsch!
Haha Jokes aside...You're correct. Geopolitics at hand force trade offs on whom you align with, and whom you don't.
We can pretend that it isn't the case, but Trump, and many of us who've seen the reality of military conflict, are fairly pragmatic about this.
Again, I've been shot at by Iranian backed groups. Iran absolutely is all about destabilizing the region for their interests over the Saudis (look up a bit about the Houthis in Yemen if you'd like)
Why does it matter if the US puts an embassy in Jerusalem? We recognize Israel, that's their capital, what's the issue? It makes Muslim countries who don't recognize Israel mad?
Alternatively, we have people who are employing Iranian government sympathetic individuals in our government now, and destabilizing the region vastly more than Trump. Also, guess who's stocks are rising now... Hint hint Lock head/Boeing/Raytheon ECT.
Blinken was just made to wait overnight by the Saudi Crown prince.
Does anyone for a second think that a Trump admin would receive this sort of humiliation?
There should be a level of realistic pragmatism here.
Iran isn't our friend. The people aren't our enemy but the government is going to do everything they can to undermine our position. We like being the richest country in the world. Every person who's in America is going to have a totally insane rude awakening if er lose Dollar supremacy. This will inevitably happen IF the idiots in the room don't wake up and stop going BRRRRR with the printing press for foreign wars.
The number one person who's demonstrating they are against that is Trump. Period.