I wondered that, too. Kuwait, Saudi, the UAE...they may have some strong opinions about this.
It seems Iran is following the playbook from the 1st Gulf War - alienate all the other Arab states. And also, threaten Israel with missile attacks. Worked as a great strategy for Saddam. The only issue will be the role of Russia and cHina in all this.
[Has anyone stopped to wonder how those other producers might react to their neighbor's advertising a plan to cut off their source of income?
I wondered that, too. Kuwait, Saudi, the UAE...they may have some strong opinions about this.]
I've noted in other threads that we seem to be trying to "thread the needle" on this topic: we want the Sunni Arabs to come out in full support of US military action against the Shiite nutcases. This means the Sunni Arab "street" to include the Iraqi insurgency, as well as teh Sunni arab governments.
Although it is in the interest of these Sunnis that we do this and succeed (unless they know the Iranian hardliners are allied with Al Qaeda and they support Al Qaeda)...their leaders may cynically conclude that we will, in fact, do their dirty work for them regarding the Iranian regime and they can just sit back and condemn us for it in order to keep the Sunni "street" in contempt of the USA and American style democratic reforms.
The best way to end the WOT would be to have Iran attack Pakistan and the Gulf States and to have everyone want to pitch in to change the Iranian regime, especially Al Jazeera.
But I doubt this will happen. I predict the liberation of Iran will be conducted against the will of Al Jazeera. The ruling elites don't want democracy and, for instance, women voting in their own countries.