What Iran REALLY wants

Much as sanctions are vital to free Persians from Islamic tyranny, the mullahs aren't building nuclear weapons simply to wipe Israel off the map.  Far from it.

The ayatollahs are concerned solely with the survival of their regime.

They've watched how the West has invaded one country after another to take down tyrants from Saddam, to Gadaffi.

But they've noticed no such intentions toward North Korea.
Nuclear weapons have kept the Kims' repressive junta untouchable, and the ayatollahs seek no less for themselves.

Now more than ever, as recent uprisings in Libya and Egypt will surely promote more civil protests and precipitate more vicious crackdowns by Ahmadinejad's thugs. 

These are the circumstances in which NATO sees its new role of intervention to protect civilians. But the existence of nuclear weapons will keep all those forces at bay, no matter what atrocities are committed by the Revolutionary Guard and its Basij thugs.

All the fiery bombast against the Jewish state is merely a cover for their urgent quest for untouchability. The very last thing the ayatollahs will consider is a surprise attack on the Jewish state, which they know is doomed to fail, and will instead guarantee the end of their regime with its dreams of Islamic hegemony.