It is very telling how many pro Iranian articles are appearing in the last month in American media. Virtually none discuss the inherent hostility the mullahs exhibit to America and its allies and the danger of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. While it is true that most Americans do not wish another US war in the region, most do not value the hostage taking medieval mullahs or the regime that supplied so many IEDs and arms that killed and maimed many Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is obvious that this concerted propaganda effort is being made because the sanctions are such a powerful smokeless weapon. The mullah regime is very hard pressed. There is ruinous inflation, social unrest and food shortages within Iran as the sale of their oil and access to international banking has been severely crimped by the sanctions. The mullah frustration is growing. It is extremely unlikely that the US will draw first blood, which historically is almost always a long term detriment. However a single, agitated jihadist junior Revolutionary Guard officer could initiate the conflagration so devoutly wished by the neo cons and others.
Iran got the chance to kill and maim Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan because we made the mistake of staying in Afghanistan and the worse blunder of invading Iraq at all.
I have no love for the Iranian lunatics but based on their actions I think they would prefer us to attack and I don’t think we should accommodate them.