Not Backing Down

Iran will never back down until they (the mullah leadership) are beat down or removed. It is not simply a matter of national or religious pride. It is a matter of devotion to an apocalyptic faith that the world must be brought into violent chaos to bring forth a sort of salvation for believers in the 12th Imam, who in their twisted theology has been hiding in a well for over a thousand years. People who fervently believe this can not be reasoned or negotiated with, but must be defeated in the same way Hitler and Imperial Japan were.