Hi, O.P. an interesting thread, I hope you will consider my ideas.
First up. I do not know if you have met any Iranians.
Iranian people are for the most part, very, very smart,intelligent and kind people, they in fact quite lovely,good people to know !
The whole Islamist Jihadist thing is theater, nothing more.
Perhaps one percent of the population, nut jobs financed by big banks.
The Iranian president is an actor,just like Ronald Reagan and Barry Obama
Washington D.C, looks like it is full of idiots, half-wits and imbeciles, it is not!
Joe Biden, our vice president seems to say something stupid every 9 days or so.
Joe Biden plays the clown. he also plays the union man and the socialist, he is none of the above and is most likely a VERY smart dude.
Behind all the global economy collapsy bullshit sits a large, important commodity called OIL.
OIL gets the world where it is going, it is in your car, dishwasher,Vacuum cleaner,Blender,CD player,Plastic whatever!
OIL is a good thing, a GIFT from GOD!
The price of OIL is set in a relationship between the producers OPEC/Venezuela/USA/Canada/North sea ETC;
and the stock market (generic term)/Wall Street.
Creating a theater in the Middle East provides tension and unknown factors, on which Speculators may BUY or SELL OIL futures/investments.
Rumors of war create volatility .
Iran will not attack Israel nor will Israel attack Iran, it would mean ABSOLUTE HORROR ON BOTH NATIONS.
OIL is not dead dinosaurs and rotted rain forests, their are no giant piles of dead dinosaurs under Saudi Arabia!
Google A-Biotic oil and Pro-Biotic Oil.
No dead Dinos 50 thousand feet below ground level, period.
It is theater, by smarter men than us.