Listening to podcasts and R 4 on Iran. It would seem they’re painting themselves into a corner. They have no real country allies to help if they were attacked by Israel and or US. Russia is already under pressure from Ukraine (US backed).
China will not get involved in any conflict directly. Their main objective is Taiwan and keeping the ships coming in with oil and minerals and going out with goods.
NK - self preservation.
Iran are backing chaos around them to throw off the attention to their uneasy grip on power. The power controlled by men 55 - 80. They were the original revoluionists of 79 and the bets from Iraq war.
The country demographic is massively against them. Loads of unempoloyed people under 30 with acces to instagram and twitter, its only a matter of time before they rebel or grow into power.
Israel are cunts as are Hezbollah and Hamas.
That stunt with the pagers and walkie talkies though is pretty immpressive