Iranian leader Ali Khamenei proclaimed that the United States is entering an Iraqi quagmire. It couldn't happen to a more worthy bunch.

An anti-Western ideology remains at the core of the Islamic republic, even as the majority of Iranian citizens long to join the West.

While the commissars for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) should represent the will of the supreme leader of Iran, today it seems they are speaking for the guards instead of overseeing them; the IRGC is slowly taking over Iran.