I read an interesting article in a web site called Asia Times. The columnist summed Iran up as a failed state. They have basically their tin pot courts and the bazaar. There is no functional political system and the people are heavily subsidised by oil revenue. Unemployment is ludicrously high. When the oil revenues start to decline they will be in big trouble. The problem as the author sees it is this is a bad recipe for potential war. We will have trouble with these punks without a doubt. They need to be bitch slapped hard.