What’s your take WilliamIII?
I’m pretty much in agreement with you, if I understand you correctly. i.e. - we treat Iran the way we treated the Soviets. Containment and MAD. It worked to keep the peace and bring down their system.
Communists blamed the West and everyone else for their problems - we countered with information about how and why communism wasn't working. Iran blames Israel for their problems - they don't ‘notice’ their backward political systems (thuggy corrupt) or the negative effects radical Islam has on their ability to join the modern world.
Iranians get one side of an argument - time to give them the other side. So you're right William - basically copy the cold war on a small scale. Then the US needs to stop getting between Israel and the Palestinians. If Cubans were lobbing rockets into Miami I wouldn't want France telling us what to do about it...