Doyle McManus: The US has Iran cornered, and that's part of the problem
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Sep 18, 2019
3 minutes
Almost 800 years ago, the Persian poet Sa'adi offered a useful warning:
Do you not see how the cornered cat
Will tear out the eyes of a leopard with its tiny claws?
In today's Middle East, Iran - besieged by the more powerful United States, its economy in tatters, its military stretched thin - is playing the role of the cornered cat.
We still don't know who fired the missiles that knocked much of Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure out of commission last
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