Put on your tinfoil hats boys, we are going to War! There is a New Axis of Evil in town and it runs between Moscow and Tehran. Check out what our friends on the right would like you to believe is in store:
"The Islamic Republic (of Iran) may believe the atomic bomb makes it untouchable, and step up its support for terrorists -- or even launch direct (conventional) attacks on Western and Israeli targets. The Gulf region could also be threatened. Under the security umbrella of a nuclear bomb -- and borrowing a page from Moscow's book in Georgia -- Tehran could claim to come to the rescue of its Shiite brethren in its predominantly Sunni neighbor states.
The worst-case scenario of course remains that the Islamists may use the doomsday device to fulfill an apocalyptic vision of Shiite Islam."
So for those not up to speed here. Let me provide a brief rundown of the potential existential threats that have been presented to us over the last 8 years......