Shielding Whom?

Mr Barack Hussein Obama deploys Patriot missile batteries to Gulf states and anti-missile ships to the Persian Gulf, though it turns out that it has less to do with protecting Iran's neighbours than it does protecting Iran against Israel.

It's that sort of logic that ends up with Poland being invaded.

Update: Iran's response? That it will "deliver a telling blow" on February the 11^th.

Get your radiation suits out, lads; the strontium levels are going to spike.