Michael Reynolds has a modest proposal…
The population of Iran is about 68 million. (Only a third of which are certifiably insane.)
Their per capita GDP is listed as $7,700. Their oil minister recently boasted that this figure would rise to 10 g’s a head. Let’s pretend he’s an honest politician, and that’s the truth. 68 million people, 10 grand a head, that comes to about 680 billion bucks per year in nice round numbers.
The gross municipal product of New York City is 500 billion. God knows what the property value is. But a nuke in NYC would cost us, let’s say, two trillion dollars without batting an eye. (Four trillion if it’s Trump generating the stats.)