Doyle McManus: The US has Iran cornered, and that's part of the problem

Almost 800 years ago, the Persian poet Sa'adi offered a useful warning:

Do you not see how the cornered cat

Will tear out the eyes of a leopard with its tiny claws?

In today's Middle East, Iran - besieged by the more powerful United States, its economy in tatters, its military stretched thin - is playing the role of the cornered cat.

We still don't know who fired the missiles that knocked much of Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure out of commission last