This is an opinion piece I'm not famiar with, I guess from before the last missile launches, but there's some interesting numbers in it If they're true.
1. They claim 60% of Iran's electricity comes from "less than a dozen" power plants and 80% of their petroleum products comes from 8 refineries. Wouldn't take many missiles or bombs to initiate a collapse if you really wanted to.
2. Now they have 5 working people per each retired person, to support their version of social security, pensions, etc. At current rates by 2050 that drops to 1.8 workers per retiree. Unsustainable.
Don't have to go in and overthrow them, just hold them back and keep them from expanding and they could fold economically on their own. They got themselves a boomer problem.
Will Iran respond with a limited attack or pick a high-value target and invoke the full wrath of the US?
www.asiatimes.com