There's seems to be an unexamined consensus that, at bottom, the Iranian regime hungers for martyrdom. They may talk a good game about it, but I doubt that a regime so deeply corrupt and incompetent in so many ways, is actively seeking martyrdom. That they are so vulnerable is a testimony to how corrupt they are. You can't get the kind of widespread and deep penetration that Israeli and American intelligence enjoy if the people running Iran weren't so motivated by the prospect of personal enrichment. Of course, now that Donald Trump and the Israelis have threatened the Iranian regime with total destruction, what do they have to lose by threatening to take the world economy down with them? It's as close as they can come in strategic effect to possession of nuclear weapons with the possible exception of chemical weapons. But since the current US regime and the Israelis are prone to make stuff up on the slenderest of provocations, it seems to me unlikely that they do possess them.
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