A war with Iran would be absolutely devastating in so many ways, and would surely engulf the world in a World War.

With Iran’s preparedness, its large standing army, and regional support from Afghani and Iraqi personnel, not to mention Iranian assets around the world, any sort of attack would create ripple effects that will draw in so many nations and interests that no one would do it.

The US knows this, the European nations know this, as does Russia and any other powerful nation. This is why, instead of attacking Iran and imposing their will, they were forced to sit down with them at the negotiating table and discuss how Iran should scale back its Uranium enrichment capabilities. In the same amount of time, the US had crushed Saddam Hussein and sent Iraq back a couple of decades.

Iran is not a country that should be under estimated, and the world powers know this. The current ruling elite of Iran have learned some very important lessons in their relatively short history, not only about the threat of coups initiated overseas, but foreign invasions into countries bordering them on a number of occasions. Most of the action they are taking today across the region and around the world are to hinder and stop any attempts to attack Iran militarily.

Iranians can and have handled sanctions which in the end became a benefit by increasing their self reliance and making them self sufficient, but they have also learned to prepare for any attack using the oldest adage from the wise Sun Tzu, “Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack”.