Odds Are 8-1 Trump Won’t Start A Gulf War – OpEd

The mutual hostility between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other since the 1978 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the unique political system known as Vilayat-e Faqih or guardianship of Faqīh (an Islamic jurist) is almost half a century old. The new political order of Islamic democracy pivoted on Iranian nationalism posed an unprecedented challenge and perceived threat to the US and the regional states in its strategic orbit, including the petrodollar monarchies...