Opposed Systems Design

Iran threatens to take Russia to some unspecified court because Russia won’t deliver the S-300s that Iran wanted. That’s the thing about international business - absent some system for adjudication, you have precious little recourse if a deal goes bad… and Iran doesn’t have many options on that front since it is so isolated from the structures of globalization. Isolation has consequences.
Containment looks better and better. They have an anemic arms industry (are we supposed to get scared of their re-engineered F-5s and flying boats?), an economy largely dependent upon energy production and its regime is shedding its ideological and religious legitimacy.