Query: IS Iran trying to start a war?
I study a lot of history and of course sometimes countries do want a war. Why? Two reasons:
1. They think they can win. (Germany, I'm looking at you.)
2. They think they can get relief from sanctions by backing off the hegemon. (As when Japan hit Pearl Harbor because we refused to sell them anymore scrap metal or oil -- they thought if they hit us hard enough, they'd have a free hand conquering Asian colonies like Singapore and the Dutch oil islands and could get what they needed to build a world-class military that way.)
Iran has shelled Saudi Arabia twice, is helping the enemy in Yemen and pretty much everywhere else; they've attacked shipping a number of times and briefly held our sailors captive. Did I miss anything? Well, trying to take over Iraq, of course. So is it No. 2, they are trying to be so much trouble that we'll take off the sanctions?
Or do they think they can win? It doesn't have to make sense to us, remember: Germany was CERTAIN they would win twice. Didn't, though. If they think they can win, that implies employing some serious hardware and going after Israel, as well as Saudi Arabia.
Anybody?