Wrong. Your analogy does not fit.
The idea that the toppling of Hitler led the Soviet Union (which, by the way, pre-existed Hitler’s Germany), implies the elimination of one evil led to a greater evil, and therefore Hitler should have been left alone.
The point of the article is that the elimination of Saddam, and the freedom of the Iraqi people has lead to opposition in Iran against the ruling theocracy and it’s henchmen. Freedom in the one infecting its neighbor with a similar desire.
Toppling Hitler did not result in the Soviet Union. But The removal of Saddam may well result in eventual freedom in Iran as an emboldened Shiite majority in Iraq challenges the domination of Iran’s clerics, and encourages Iranians themselves to do the same.
If I am not mistaken, the absorption of smaller and weaker states that went on to become part of the Soviet Union actually began before the Great Patriotic War.
Ok. I agree