"William Black" wrote in message
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"Keith W" wrote in message
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1) They might be prepared to hurt themselves to hurt us. In a full
scale war they wont care.


I suspect they will when they run out of money and food

No evidence of that in the "Iran Iraq" war.


Actually there was. Depletion of Iranian foreign currency reserves
in the latter stages of the war caused major problems to the
Iranians and was one of the reasons they agreed to a ceasefire.
They were reduced to barter style swops of food for oil by 1987.

You also have to recall that they were able to export oil .
Oil exports ran at around 1.1 million bpd throughout the war with
a brief drop in 1986 following the bombing of Kharg Island.
By early 1987, oil exports were around the level set in by its
OPEC agreements.

The Iranian form of government (an Islamic theocratic republic) has shown
it
has considerable fortitude and public support in times of hardship.


Indeed but the Iran Iraq war was defensive, Iraq had invaded Iran.
A war caused by a belligerent Iranian government may be less
well supported.

Keith



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