Mysteries of America and Iran

Coming Catastrophe: Four Mysteries of America and Iran by John Batchelor - HUMAN EVENTS:
“Tehran sees its future in absolutes. Either it defeats America in the region, and establishes its hegemony over the region’s oil reserves, and enforces a Persian Empire for the first time in 2500 years, or else it loses everything. Tehran will not seek settlement. If America does not attack pre-emptively, then Tehran will find a way to provoke the attack. The current wrestling at the United Nations Security Council over Iran’s refusal to cease its nuclear enrichment program can be understood as a ploy by Iran to draw in America to a military confrontation.

Tehran will not bend before words, sanctions, threats or an attack. Tehran believes that it can answer an American attack with strikes on American forces in Iraq, on the Persian Gulf oil structure and, through its proxies, on the state of Israel. Tehran’s radical cadre believes that it will survive the American attack in its bunkers. In the meantime, Tehran can close the Gulf and starve the West for oil. The day a ceasefire is imposed by exhausted powers, Tehran emerges as the regional hegemon.”