“Assad isn’t going to try to conquer the world...”
He supports and enables the Iranians who want to do that. IOW - he’s an accessory. What’s the difference?
I think the relationship is reversed. The Iranians support him, if the word "support" is used in a practical as opposed to verbal sense. Hezbollah gets its weaponry from Lebanese ports. If we're going to talk about accessories, Sunnis are directly responsible for the deaths of 10,000 Americans whereas Shiites are responsible for 240 Marines in Beirut and perhaps 19 in Dhahran. Note also that Shiites are 10% of the world's Muslims and Sunnis are 90%. Iran can't conquer the Sunni part of the ummah, never mind the world. Do you really think Pakistan would stand aside as its neighbor, Iran, overruns the gulf states? This would be Pakistan, which has 2.5 times Iran's population, and is in the process of killing off its Shiite minority?