Is peace between the US and Iran impossible? Is Hezbollah an Iranian proxy? Is the US empire dissolving?

I have noticed that people who say Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy when they blame Iran for what Hezbollah does also complain that Hezbollah has no justification attack Israel in retaliation for Israeli attacks on Iran. 

I always assumed Hezbollah was an Iranian ally rather than proxy (or instrument) because proxy is a useful word for justifying verbal and military attacks on Iran. AI thinks it's a proxy but AI just repeats what most people have written. 

In his latest podcast Alastair Crooke, ex MI6, who knows the region as much as any man, is clear that Hezbollah is a free agent and ally of Iran, not a proxy. 

"I think particularly in the case of Hassan Nasrallah Iran not only respected him hugely as a a statesman but as a wise person and and so more often than not I think it was Hassan Nasrallah giving advice to Iran rather than Iran telling him what to do. That certainly didn't happen."

In the same podcast AC says he doesn't think there will be an agreement between the USA and Iran. What we can hope for is "peace without a peace".

Iran's inevitable demands are too much for America to agree to overtly.

It really does look like the world might have changed in as big a way as when the Soviet empire came to an end.

I hope so. The American empire deserves the words which Carlyle put into Cromwell's mouth when he dissolved the Rump Parliament. "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done."