Bobby M. Tuazon Iran is a battlefront curated by the US and Israel for regime change and for the control of its oil industry. A hypothetical defeat of Iran will make it expedient for the US to attack China, marginalize Russia, and rejuvenate its dying hegemonic interests. This scenario, however, is without empirical basis given the decline of the American empire and the accelerated rise of China while pushing the fragile US-centric unipolar world off the cliff in favor of a