[Zhang Fei]

[And why should we care if Iran takes its natural place as hegemon of the region?]

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Why would we indulge your preference that Iran should control 40% of the world’s oil and be able to target us with nukes and ICBM’s?

[Shadow44]

Iran doesn’t have the force projection to control the realistically control all of the oilfields, and they don’t have ICBMs. Even if they did, why would they use them? Because they’re so crazy that they don’t mind being nuked off the face of the Earth?