content: They're nominally socialist for a start, and virulently anti British. They bought most of their weapons off the ragheads back in the day as well. The Iranians named a road after IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/8425593/Libyan-arms-helped-the-IRA-to-wage-war.html https://www.rte.ie/news/special-reports/2014/0114/497886-iran-remembers-babi-sandz/