OK I’ll bite. What is your basis for believing that their need for a distraction is so imminent and desperate that they would attack a Japanese tanker with PM Abe in town?
They were having problems two years ago when things were BETTER than they are now.
And just like Clinton used the war against imaginary genocide in Kosovo to distract people from his problems the Iranian regime can also distract their people with a war against ‘The Great Satan’.
A war would give the regime justification to crack down on dissidents and to execute people en masse in the name of national security.