Why the US can batter Iran, but can’t bend it

If you look at Iran right now, you will see a nation mired in almost every possible crisis. Western sanctions that have finished off any chances of growth for the country, nationwide protests triggered by a severe economic distress, decades of repression of personal liberties that erupt into protests from time to time, the quelling of voices by force, the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, and, most dangerously, an impending sense of doom at the hands of the US and Israel. It was bombed by both countries just last year. Yet, it refuses to kneel. advertisement This is not…