Iran is a fascinating country. Whilst effectively ruled by the religious lunatics and the supreme head who's name I have no hope in correctly spelling, so shall refer to him simply as 'Ali,' for haste's sake, you are completely correct in your point point about the ratio of the young. They make up a huge section of Iranian society, and given there is no 'great firewall of Iran,' such as in China, and as I witnessed yesterday, their independent journalists seem quite tongue and cheek about their government and relaxed enough to state they virtually all got bored and to quote the guy 'chatted amongst themselves,' with their president's rhetoric during his 'glorious' speech yesterday, I am reasonably optimistic with the generation's effect on the course of it's nation's history; the more so given their access to freedom of information such as the Internet. What concerns me, is the power of the religious fundamentalists who are ultimately in charge, and their effect on how far freedom and liberty can go. The religious police come out at every opportunity and intimidate and bully the Iranian people, especially at election time in Iran. So will there be some eventual and inevitable clash? Perhaps yes, if we open up some meaningful dialogue with Iran, more than simply 'it's part of an axis of evil,' but no if we simply deal with Iran like Iraq, which will simply do as you say, and instantly radicalize otherwise unfanatic Iranians, and achieve us nothing in the long term, other than unstable oil markets, an insecure Israel, and further spacoidness amongst muslims where we live. Yay! Now the mother all debriefings! So like, why did you praise your 'hosts' so much, ensign? I was told I would get home,sir! Logic