Certainly we are not backing Iran into the Corner the Japanese were backed into prior to WW2.
Iran has choices. All they need do is stop building the weapon they have promised to destroy Israel with.
The thesis of this story is a boatload.
Eh? What corner would that be?
The Japanese were an expansionist nation prior to WWII. They had invaded China in the 1930s and had taken over and militarized many of the Pacific Islands, including the Philippines, and then bombed our Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. What corner were they backed into to cause that?