New Concerns That Israel Is Close To Striking Iran's Nuclear Facilities

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I also think Iran is greatly emboldened because from Iranian point of view, she had beaten the United States completely and asserted her own interests in region. Furthermore, she thinks she had attained her victory greatly against her own initial expectations, and in spite of what she perceive to be, not unreasonably, perfidious treachery by the United States in the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion.

So her strategic powers in the region are at a high point. She thinks the impact of western sanctions are a small price for the maintanance and consolidation of her powers.