I was reading up on an Iran and I came across an old ad...
It struck me how much could change in 10 years. Say Iran builds its dodgy Russian nuclear plant as planned this year. The active faultline it's built upon erupts in a massive earthquake (Iran had two 5+ earthquakes last year) irradiating Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Iraq and Saudi Arabia as well. The US having the logistics in the region conducts humanitarian aid, Iranian students assassinate Ahmadinejad, the regime collapses into civil war, the US backs the reformists...in 2017, Iran is a staunch US ally. So no one should have any problem with my MEA army taking M1A2s then. 8)

It struck me how much could change in 10 years. Say Iran builds its dodgy Russian nuclear plant as planned this year. The active faultline it's built upon erupts in a massive earthquake (Iran had two 5+ earthquakes last year) irradiating Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Iraq and Saudi Arabia as well. The US having the logistics in the region conducts humanitarian aid, Iranian students assassinate Ahmadinejad, the regime collapses into civil war, the US backs the reformists...in 2017, Iran is a staunch US ally. So no one should have any problem with my MEA army taking M1A2s then. 8)