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Iran has just had a democracy with a majority Shiite population established next door. That same country is now an ally of the United States, as is Iran's neighbor to the west, Afghanistan. Waging a conventional war on Iran would be no more complicated than it was in Iraq, albeit the troops currently in Iraq will not be available for use until Iraq takes over its own security.
We can't invade Iran in the next, say, two years. After that... let's just say that I don't like the thought of Iraq possessing nuclear weapons: religious zealots are prone to being extremely irrational and MAD only works if all the actors are behaving rationally.
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