Iran Facts?

Iran is the big blue blob in the middle. The dark read circles with the white stars are military bases.

Just ran into an ad on YouTube that uses a bunch of the Iranian 'Death To America' rhetoric to argue that we should keep the sanctions against Iran in place. I'm not too concerned one way or the other about this. As far as I am concerned the guys running the Iranian government are a bunch of whack jobs, but I do wonder just who is putting these ads up. A little pointy and clicky and I turn up their YouTube page which has an About section, which is totally blank. You don't suppose Saudi Arabia is behind this, do you?
    One side effect of our imposing sanctions on Iran is that it could make the Russians look like their friends. Russia may not be particularly fond of Iran, but anytime they can gain some advantage they will certainly take it, and if they manage to poke us in the eye while they are at it, so much the better. We had a chance to do something with Cuba when the Soviet Union collapsed, but we stuck to our guns, and now Russia is back on their feet, and setting up operations in Cuba again.
    This is beginning to look like a warmed over version of the cold war. We support the Saudis and Russia supports Iran. The Saudis support the President of Syria and the Iranians support the rebels, or did I get that last part backwards?