Thirteen Years Later - Is Iranian Islamic Republic Appeased?

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jul 29, 2021 at 16:48

In extreme irony, are we still trying to see how the Iranian Islamic power brokers are going to move once again into the spotlight of acquiring dominance in the region while the world community struggles with post pandemic issues of sovereignty?
We are being told that a nuclear Iranian Islamic Regime is less than a year away from being a nuclear contender; is that true?
They've been trying for so long; and it seems that when a breakthrough is close, something else breaks.
In reviewing the series of comments on this decade or so old post, many of the other contentions of the time still seem relevant. Is that because in reality that time has advanced the clock, but the contentions have not. Even the appearances of the American 46th Administration mimic the 44th Administration and we have little to show for the passage of time and unimaginative and somewhat useless diplomatic efforts that cannot convince modern rationales that something is not right when looking back and seeing no differences.
Really, what should we be seeing that might make a difference that would make sense all this time later?

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