You put an arbitrary cutoff date in 2023. But going back to 1948 allows your opponents to add the Iran-Iraq wars (which Iran could have ended; "Estimates of total casualties range from 1,000,000 to twice that number."), and of course the creation of Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as the continuous, violent suppression of Iranians.

Iran is by no means a sane country, not even compared to present-day Israel.