John Moore,

I think deterence would work with the Mullahs because of their huge finacial interests and the fact that although they are big on chanting,threatening and hanging, they never put their own lives on the line.At the moment they are rich Mullahs,equivalent of the Borgia and Medici popes,they do not want to go back to cooking on a goat shit fire sitting in the rubble of the crater formerly known as Iran.

There are two main pillars of the Mullah’s power,oil and religious centres both very vulnerable.

A parallel target list should be drawn up,it probably already has, of Iranian targets that will cease to exist should there be a strike on the US.

Make the Mullahs responsible for America’s safety,if a bird so much as farts out of place on the White House lawn hold the Mullahs responsible.

It will work because the leadership of all these howling, knife waving seventh century throwbacks have too much to lose.