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Yes America has a military presence on both sides of Iran. Iran wisely backed down on threats to develop nukes (they still have plenty of missiles and rockets) but the only countries threatened are Israel and the Gulf dictatorships.
Houthis love to yell "Death to America, Death to Israel" at the end of each video in Yemen but Israel is actually bombing Iranian linked targets inside Syria and killing military and civilians. Hamas and other groups have successfully attacked Israel.
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President Trump materially breached a multination, complex agreement with Iran that provided for cessation of their nuclear weapon program. Not removing all threats in the region but reversing decades of tension. armscontrol.org/factsheets/JCP…
After Trump's Neocon ramp up and fail, Iran hopes to spread the pain to their global crude, refined and LNG customers forcing them to push Trump to do one of his hasty backpedals. They know Trump is posturing. A war with Iran is not an election boost vox.com/2019/7/1/20677…
Israel with dense urban populations and the Gulf oil monarchies with clustered shipping and transportation are vulnerable. Iran has thousands of mobile rockets and ten times the populaton. Trump's lack of commitment and Bolton's failures to date are telling if Iran wants war. 
There are wild cards in any conflict. Turkey, China, Russia, a disgruntled oil starved Europe and/or Asia and even the classic internal divisions that can be stirred up. jewishjournal.com/news/nation/24…
This is why you are seeing Iran pull the enemy closer to where we are at our weakest and their real local enemies overconfident. Much like the seeming suicidal muj ambushes that bring the enemy rushing into a second bigger trap. apple.news/AqmJyV6UCRcmeQ…
