ping
Listeners to John Batchelor's program
have expected this for a long time
it all is in Iran's 'game plan'.
Whether it will work to Iran's advantage
is not yet clear
but it is hard to see any good coming out of this
for Israel.
Watching this from nearby
I find the situation depressing.
What is happening is exactly what Iran wanted.
More confusion and diversionary turmoil.
Iran knows exactly what it wants
and how to get it
and how to plan ahead
realistically.
Unfortunately
the same cannot be said for the US
or Israel.