[cripplecreek]

a nation headed by a group of religious extremists who believe their mission is to bring about the end of the world

I don't know why so many have trouble grasping just how insane these twelvers really are. They believe they can bring the Mahdi by washing the world in blood. Even the Ayatolla Khomeini worked to keep them out of power because he believed they were too extreme.

They want to strap a bomb belt around the whole planet.

[DugwayDuke]

“I don’t know why so many have trouble grasping just how insane these twelvers really are.”

Yes, but such a failure can be extraordinarily convenient if you want to believe that you can avoid confronting those twelvers. If your position is that Iran can be ‘deterred’, then admitting that they are religious extremists who believe their mission is to wash the world in blood and usher in the rule of the 12th Iman is rather inconvenient.