And nothing to do with ongoing Iranian threats and HZ's latest...

And nothing to do with ongoing Iranian threats and HZ's latest admissions of missile ratlines snaking their way through Syria.

Nor has it anything to do with the pot and kettle gamesmanship between Iran, Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia which is always played at the expense of ordinary people.

Iran has made massive strategic gains in the region but the sociopathic nut-heads who guide the regime seem very keen to risk it all with no prospect of additional net gain. To retain their gains all they had to do was behave ……. but they can't and won't.