Comment: Iran is seemingly doing its utmost to incite a shooting war. Its constant harassment and occasional seizures of foreign oil tankers and merchant ships in clearly international waters are provocative to say the least.
Apparently, Iran feels that it can do anything it wants to in the international gulf waters and anyone who retaliates will be attacked. Are their actions attempts to hasten the return Twelfth mahdi?
“The Mahdi is expected to appear when the world is wracked by utter chaos and war. Many Sunnis also believe that the Mahdi will come in such a judgment day scenario, but believe that he has not been born yet.”
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by Adam Kredo –
Iranian military leaders on Friday said the country had drafted plans to strike “400 American targets” in response to further military action by the United States...
...“The day we attacked on Ain al-Asad, we thought the U.S. forces would respond after 20 minutes, so we were ready to attack 400 American targets,” Hajizadeh disclosed, though he did not provide detailed information about the sites in question.
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Let us hope that Iranian realists outnumber the fundamentalists.