If "damages only" was referred to as getting "half the country blown up or radiated" I think there would be quite the internal revolt in Iran.
I don't think so. Thanks to Jimmah Carter, the Ayatollahs have been teaching an ideology of death and maryrdom for almost three decades.
During the Iraq-Iran war, for instance, they got through Saddam's minefields by roping their children in groups of 20 for martyrdom operations. We ended up supporting Hussein because Iran's insane, suicidal human wave attacks led by clerics with no military training almost won the war for Iran.
Iran also has public stonings (you can watch on YouTube), hangs people from cranes for sodomy (these images are also readily available) -- we're dealing with a truly Dark Age society with a Dark Age mindset.
These guys are true believers, and Ahmadinejad means everything he says about halos, the Mahdi, the Apocalypse, wiping out the Jews and so forth.