I see Iran as a glass parking lot.
If we take that route; think broken glass. Earthquakes like the one in Bam would break it up good... besides that, drilling for oil or gas through glass is bound to make a mess.
At the moment, it looks like the Iranian people are pissed off enough to take care of this problem themselves. A democratic Iran [what the Iranian people want and are working for] would bring the country back in the community of nations and put an end to the U.S.-Iran fued. A democratic Iran would be much more likely to put its oil revenue into social programs, ie. education and roads, and spend less time executing political dissidents, making missiles and funding terrorism in the ME, EU and US.