There are aspects of Iran that concern me as a person of western, christian outlook. They hardly need enumerating again here.

Is Iran that bad on a world scale compared to other regimes whether in the middle east, Africa, Asia etc? Why pick on Iran if there are worse examples of human rights abuses elsewhere? I don't believe the bogey of nuclear weapons is real, see today's Australian report on an article in Foreign Affairs by Kenneth Waltz of Columbia U. Waltz argues possession of nuclear weapons enhances stability and quotes as an example India/Pakistan.

It looks to me a similar rerun to the Pacific War. How much of Japan's Co-prosperity Sphere was a result of sanctions by other powers that cycled out of control till war was inevitable. The current situation looks similar with demonisation, sanctions and a vicious circle applying more and more of the same.

The thing that most worries me is they are doing a good job of creating a state/regime/people that is the most dangerous object, one with nothing to lose because they have been totally denied everything. To them war is the best possible outcome because it can't be worse than it is now.

DKit

I find it very hard to believe that the Europeans have fallen in behind the US to attempt to add Iran to it's Empire.
They have idiotically placed sanctions on Iran's oil and put themselves at the mercy of Russia and any other state that is willing to supply them oil. The Chinese and Indians are the beneficiaries and are voraciously grabbing all the Iranian oil that is going. When the oil market tightens again and it most certainly will, there is no way that the US is going to be able to supply Europe.
As dkit says "Why pick on Iran if there are worse examples of human rights abuses elsewhere"?
North Korea springs to mind as an example of human rights abuse, with parts of Africa also in the picture.
No it is all a part of the Israeli run push to destroy the Government of Iran through their leverage in the US.
IF the US does attack Iran either directly or through it's proxy Israel, it will be the start of a world war to end all world wars.

The Western Oligarchs pick on Iran for two major reasons.Firstly their large independant oil supply and second is their independant banking system.The likes of the Rothschilds,and Rockefellers want to to own the productivity of Iran by being their Central Bank.

They want to create from nothing all the money for Iran's growth so Iran will be their debt bitch,like most poor countries around the planet.

Why do you think Greece,Italy, Spain and most of Europe is stuffed?

An interesting juxtaposition isn't it? On the one hand Iran was all for the Arab spring and the overthrow of dictators!?
Yet when it comes to Syria, here they are threatening any nation that attempts to aid the uprising and have singled out NATO partner, Turkey, for special attention!
Clearly the sanctions have had very little effect, with Iran still earning record incomes from oil sales?
Perhaps very close ally, Syria and or Assard, assists with that; and perhaps, the reason behind Iran's sabre rattling?
Sabre rattling which puts millions of innocent civilians at risk, or allows them to be massacred in their thousands by a mass murderer, who it seems, will go to any lengths to retain his grip on power?
If you want to kill a snake you cut off its head!
If you want to render it completely harmless, you bury the severed head.
Good intell will identify where the head is, and a few well placed cruise missiles will bury it.
Better that than an all out war that includes, nuclear warheads and the massacre of millions of entirely innocent, non combatant, peaceful civilians. Enough already!
As for Iranian oil and what it purchases, we have to our immediate north, potential hydrocarbon reserves, which produce four times less hydrocarbons than Middle East sourced imports, from well head to and including transport use!
And reserves that may well eclipse the entire known Middle East reserves.
Exploiting and exporting these reserves, will first and foremost reduce the amount of carbon we put into the atmosphere, reduce the cost of essential fuel, and harm the sabre rattlers, where it hurts the most!
In the hip pocket!
With a seriously downsized income stream, both Russia and Iran will need to refocus on other things, like widespread domestic dissatisfaction, military mutiny, and all that could spring from that?
Rhrosty.