war, mismanagement, corruption, Western sanctions, diplomatic isolation,oil-market fluctuations, and natural disasters-is in shambles, with unemployment officially around 15 percent, in- flation at 18 percent, and unoffi- cial estimates of both far higher.
Iran's borders are unstable, it has only a few friends left in the world (notably, Syria and Paki- stan), and worst of all, the Great Satan, a.k.a. the United States, is now the lone superpower on the planet and the chief military power in the...