WHAT'S WITH IRAN?

Any person who thinks that Iran has been docilely shutting down its nuclear programs in compliance with the "treaty" it signed with the United States during the Obama Administration is terribly naive.  Their history shows that they are fully intent on the destruction of Israel and that they are prepared to use  nuclear weapons in order to do so. Accordingly, they have had many agreements with the United Nations and the United States to shut down their nuclear ambitions in recent decades... which they have blatantly ignored. 

While President Trump has seemingly been preoccupied with North Korea, Venezuela and our southern border, it appears that an emboldened Iran has been stepping up its clandestine activities.  It's no secret, for example, that they have been using the billions of American dollars in cash supplied to them by Barack Hussein Obama to foster terrorism in the Middle East.  We don't know that they have fully achieved nuclear capabilities; on the other hand, we don't know that they have not.  I suspect that, when North Korea was in the beginning stages of some sort of compliance with its agreement with the U.S., it was quietly shipping its nuclear technology to Iran; they've been close allies in the nuclear race for years. 

There are several nations... Russia, China, North Korea and Iran... who want to test and see just what they can get away with, with President Trump in the White House.  One of them seems bound and determined to push us into some sort of conflict; it's just a matter of which one does it first.  

It doesn't appear to me that Iran is planning an armed invasion into Iraq; there is no indication that they have been building up troops along their joint border.  I think it is far more likely that they were planning either to attack a U.S. ship, to attack Kuwait, or to attack Israel.  Although separated by Iraq and Jordan, an air or missile attack on Israel is definitely feasible. 

Whatever it is that they are up to, the insertion of more U.S. ships and bombers into the Persian Gulf is an ominous sign that our intelligence sources have detected some sinister plot.  How we handle it... how we respond... will signal Russia, China and North Korea how serious we are.  By responding proactively and with military strength, it's highly likely that North Korea will back off and step up to the negotiating table again, just as it there will be an increased likelihood that China will slow down its activities in the South China Sea and that Russia may extract itself from Venezuela.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.