Imagine that you are Israel. Two other parties are in a conflict with each other, and one of them turns to you and says, "If your buddy here does anything to tick me off, I'm going after you." It seems to me that Iran is asking for Israel to take preemtive action. Why? Because it is the fulfillment of prophecy, because Israel is the main enemy, and maybe, just maybe, because Iran thinks it would do better against them than against US. Maybe they hope to quickly obliterate Israel and that we will be to confused and demoralized to respond to their fait accompli.
Very possible.
I would hope the US and Israel could do a joint action.
A car bomb or smart bomb taking the leadership out would be worth a try for now.
He doesn't think the US has the cojones to attack Iran and he thinks he can simply overpower Israel, plus he's just jacking up the price of oil for his own benefit and to the detriment of the US economy and political scene. When oil gets high, Bush gets trashed, when Bush loses, republicans lose and wimp ass dem's win...this helps Mahmoud. Very clever he is...but he doesn't realize just how much fire he's playing with.