Amazing List of articles! The Persians are moving!
They've been preparing World War III for a long while now. This wouldn't have been a problem had we knocked their mullahs' turbans off after destroying Saddam. Now, expect them to close the shipping lanes to oil tankers, with plenty of help. But we'll also have help in the Horn in the form of the Chinese and the Islamic nutjob from Sudan (for a price). The Russians will be on Iran's side, just as they are now and have been for decades.