Good joke, Jim, I didn't know that one.
Onm the issue, let'S wait how it shapes up. The plot is several weeks ago, it seesm they really wanted to take the time to make this as fail-safe and tight a case as they could.
The motivation of Iran could be to disrupt ties between the US and Saudi Arabia - Iran's biggest rival for dominance in the region. Also hasn't Iran repeatedly threatened to wipe out Israel? You do not expect too much reasonability from a voice saying so, do you, JU_88...?! Even more so when they mean it?!
For the US, this is two-sided an affair. Military action woudkl mean more costs, and that in the current time of financial crisis, and maybe the third war within just ten years, if they go all the way. It could also be an opportunity or an argument to go after that Iranian nuclear weapon program, via air strikes, special ops and together with the Israelis. That program does not disappear all by itself, you know.
Whatever, sending agents to a foreign nation to assassinate people there and blowing up places, imo is nothing else but a declaration of war. I mean you cannot act any more hostile than killing people and blowing up places, and intentionally so.
Wwe now need to wait and see what evidence the US is showing up with. If it is a speculation like mobile bio-labs in Itran, or a Powellian phiola with "antrax" powder theatralically shown to the camera, then it is a fake. If it is something better founded - then it becomes complex for Obama, because he could not afford to ignore the incident then. The chance to win profile in a military campaign, improving election chances by that and giving Iran a bloody nose, versus a war-tired sentiment in the US, loosing election chances therefore, and a crisis of the American finance system.