My prediction:

By the end of the second quarter of 2008, the US and several of her allies will be in open warfare with Iran.

Unlike Iraq, this war won't be an invasion of Iran, but rather, it will consist of a naval engagement and naval blockade of Iran and a series of air strikes against key Iranian defensive-oriented military bases and, of course, Iran's nuclear facilities.

Also targeted will be Iran's political regime and structure in an effort to help topple the Iranian regime.

And, between now and when the military campaign begins, there will be an ever-increasing effort on the world's stage (the UN) by the US and her allies to force Iran to rethink and change its actions concerning her nuclear program and her activities in the Middle East...which will bear no fruit, so to speak.

Also, the US and her allies will exhibit an ever-increasing effort to try their best to convince the Iranian people that regime change is in their power and that the world will be behind them in their effort to change the Iranian political structure and government...which will also bear no fruit, so to speak, at least not until the open war begins.


Just a "heads up"...

(I could be wrong with this prediction, of course. But everything I've read about the international situation with Iran and the Iranian regime's history-and I've read an aweful lot on these topics over the past five years or so-points to this outcome.)