I think countries like Israel and the US enacting and enabling a genocide and constantly bombing countries in the middle east has "emboldened countries like Iran" (hmm, I wonder what you meant with that phrasing....). Israel just struck an Iranian embassy last week, and this is retaliation.
"There's an argument" you have no idea what you're talking about.
Iran launches attack against Israel with drones 'hours away' from Israeli soil ( www.theguardian.com )