Iran is playing a game we don't understand

Here's a fact for all of you: Persians invented the game of chess. They are true experts in the art of brinksmanship. At the same time, even if we were as good as the Iranians at playing these games, the current regime of Mad Mullahs is not working according to the same script we are: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/11/05/do0503.xml.

Simply put, the Iranian leadership is not in the business of making idle statements or threats. When they say that they want Israel wiped off the map, that's what they mean and what they will try to accomplish. When they say that they want nuclear power, it's because they are going to try and use it for reasons that we don't consider rational, but which they see as perfectly legitimate. We misinterpret them at our own tremendous peril.