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I think we do realise, Howard, but were waiting for you to open a thread on it.
A rather unpleasant task, I know, but many people in Britain don't want to comment on the Iran dispute, because we know it is being spurred on by the Iranian regime, and there isn't much, if anything, anyone here can do about it.
Oil has gone up 20% since December as a direct result, and that certainly bites at the western economies. Teheran isn't doing anything other than turning the temperature up and not down, and the USA know they cannot back down on Iran's challenge.
But all said, the economic downturn caused by the stand-off only adds to our woes here, and I doubt many people in the West give a tout for the economic problems of the people in Teheran, as we have enough of our own.
My guess is, the Iranian government is deliberately trying to create an economic collapse in the West, while portraying to their own people that the West is deliberately trying to do exactly that to Iran.
Anyone challenging the USA in such an open manner needs their head seen to.,,