US bombs Iran

[Ruthio]

This extract from today's Knowlege makes interesting, if depressing reading...

One effect of Israel's bombing campaign is that it has allowed military hardliners to grab power from the clerics, says The Economist.
In the first days of the war the ageing Ayatollah "disappeared from the scene" and delegated decision-making to a new council, or shura, dominated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Because Israel has assassinated much of the IRGC's relatively moderate top brass, the military wing is now dominated by a new generation: one that's impatient, dogmatic and "bent on redeeming national pride".
Iran has long pursued "reckless risk-taking and belligerence" under the mullahs. "The danger is the military men are worse."

[JBR]

This extract from today's Knowlege makes interesting, if depressing reading...

One effect of Israel's bombing campaign is that it has allowed military hardliners to grab power from the clerics, says The Economist.
In the first days of the war the ageing Ayatollah "disappeared from the scene" and delegated decision-making to a new council, or shura, dominated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Because Israel has assassinated much of the IRGC's relatively moderate top brass, the military wing is now dominated by a new generation: one that's impatient, dogmatic and "bent on redeeming national pride".
Iran has long pursued "reckless risk-taking and belligerence" under the mullahs. "The danger is the military men are worse."

Oh, so it's all Israel's fault!
I think that all the 'clerics', inevitably muslim, have forced their own way into power.  The ordinary people in Iran, from the days of the Shah, have always been peaceful people.  In fact, I'm not sure they are even muslims.

[muddy]

I would not take the Economist as gospel .