They are tremendously over playing their hand. Things work in mysterious ways sometimes -
They probably realized the U.S. had done that when we did nothing to North Korea after they declared they had nukes.
"In the December 2004 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, James Fallows reported that numerous high-level war-gaming sessions had recently been completed by Sam Gardiner, a retired Air Force colonel who has run war games at the National War College for the past two decades. Col. Gardiner summarized the outcome of these war games with this statement, “After all this effort, I am left with two simple sentences for policymakers: You have no military solution for the issues of Iran. And you have to make diplomacy work.”
Get used to another muslim nation with nukes, and pray for Musharraf's health.
They are tremendously over playing their hand.
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Yes, they are. They don't realize they have a HUGE bulls-eye painted on them. Maybe God does work in strange ways. The world does not need Iran under the radical mullah rule.