The Iranian issue will have to be resolved prior to the end of this year because
1) The US has troops in Iraq and if those troops leave, which will probably be in the Spring of 2008, we aren’t going back anytime soon.
2) The Israeli-Iranian War is about erupt any day.
3) Republican or Democrat elected in 2008, 01.20.09, a new directions will take place.
I’m sort of doubtful that the nuclear situation with Iran is going to be solved any time soon. I anticipate them getting their nuclear weapons by 2012, if not a lot sooner. But, I guess we’ll certainly see fairly soon, whether anything will actually be done. That’s about all of us in the public can really do — simply wait and watch how the situation develops, because we certainly don’t have a single bit of control over what’s going to happen there...