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Given its monopoly of guns, bet on the Iranian regime. But, in the long run, the ayatollahs have to see the handwriting on the wall.
Let us assume what they insist upon -- that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the June 12 election; that, even if fraud occurred, it did not decide the outcome. As Ayatollah Khamenei said to loud laughter in his Friday sermon declaring the election valid, "Perhaps 100,000, or 500,000, but how can anyone tamper with 11 million votes?"
Still, the ayatollah and Ahmadinejad must hear the roar of the rapids ahead. Millions of Iranians, perhaps a majority...
Ten Days That Shook Tehran
Total BS. Iran is rational. It helped the US in Afghanistan (as it served its interests) and opposed it in Iraq (again, that in its interest). The leaders in Iran have been spirting away funds into Swiss bank accounts in the belief of oncoming sanctions (hardly the act of a regime seeing the world about to end).
Israel has a nuclear stockpile as large as the PRC's to Iran's stockpile of...drum roll please...ZERO. Even IF Iran have a small stockpile it would not attack Israel as it knows what the response would be and yes, that do care. Iran's leadership goals are the same as the leadership in the DPRK--survive and attacking...