[Beetle01]

Do you think Iran is going to try to use this and make the US and Israel look bad in some way?

Doubtful the only people supporting Iran are Russia and China. Everyone else is fully behind Israel and the US. Even the arab countries in the ME want it done. (Iran is not an Arab country)

Iran wants a major war in the Middle East that will disrupt oil supplies to the US, but it is trying to use Israel to get the backing of the Muslim Arabs. The problem for the Iranians is that most countries in the area are more concerned about becoming a parter of "Greater Iran" than they are worried about Israel.

Any war will happen on Iranian territory. They basically have no navy and that is why we are putting so much hardware off their shores, to secure the Persian Gulf, to keep oil flowing. America gets no oil from Iran anyways. Im sure we will see Hezbollah and other Iranian backed terrorist groups step up attacks against Israel, and possibly other sites in the ME. However, there will be no invasion of any place by Iran.

IMO Iran will take the airstrikes on the nose, and be done with it. We have already seen a lot of instability in that country since the their last election.

One thing to watch out for, is Russia. They are strongly opposing this, as they get a lot of oil from Iran. If Russia responds by launching attacks on Georgia, then watch out.