IRAN today = FRANCE 1914 ?

Yeah I saw a hard fighting Iran under their new leader-he is so determined to make his mark that I feel he can do anything to bring the world into the brink of war. How many times did he deny the genocide of Jews by the Germans?America is a super power today, and I know mankind is so obsessed with power that even the much humble Iran today would like to be a super power tomorrow and to be one, they surely must prove to Americans in policy opposition and decisive battles that they are a greater and mightier power than America. I agree with you perspective completely redyellowblackdog

Of course it could, and from the other link that I saw in this linked article, it seems there are in the neighborhood of 25 million employment age Muslim males with nothing to do. The question is, who will Iran decide to make war on if they do decide that would be in their best interest? We already know that they are eagerly waiting for the US to leave Iraq so that Iran can move in, so that would be one good possibility. I think anything Iran would fight would be in it's immediate neighborhood, most likely on either border or both. I also noticed that Iran only has about thirty years where it would have enough manpower to put into battle, and after that Iran most likely will be in decline as a real threat because of the lack of military age males. So the short of it is that Iran is going to be a threat for a few decades, and then it will merely be an old dog without much bite. I also noticed that the Muslim population actually is expected to decline as more women become educated, and this is a good thing as well, as far as the radicals are concerned. I do think that given enough time, the Western influences will see and end to the radicals as the younger generation rejects the violent aspects of Islam, and embraces the freedoms that the West provides.