A dash of Iranian reality?

THOUGH this passage is a bit out of context from his piece (read it here), Time's Joe Klein has some compelling thoughts about Iran (my main interest here): "Despite what the Israelis say--and you hear some really crazy stuff about Ayatullah Khamenei when you're in Israel--the Obama policy toward Iran has been succeeding. The economic sanctions have hit hard. The stuxnet virus is only the tip of an iceberg of sabotage and espionage being visited, brilliantly, upon the Iranians by Israel and the US. And even if Iran got a nuclear weapon--a terrible thing, to be sure--it probably would be no more of a threat to our national interests than the current North Korean program. Indeed, it probably wouldn't even be much of a threat to Israel: the Iranians have never acted in a truly crazy way--like, say, Gaddafi; or even in as mindlessly bellicose a manner as Saddam Hussein. They have a real country, wealth on the ground, a beloved heritage to protect; the pain inflicted by the Iran-Iraq war remains real and raw, and a lesson far more compelling than this phony anti-zionism drummed up by the government (in a country that used to be, and could again be, Israel's closest ally in the region)." Klein thinks Obama is in a "very strong position against Iran" unless "we blow it" with "unwarranted" incursions into the region like, in his view, Libya.