The mess in the Middle East will smolder along until...

The Israelis capture an Iranian Revolutionary Guard with his papers or some other damning ID, then Iran find it has no friends in the world.

Then the ass-whooping can begin. And it will come from all sides. Even the Russians will get involved? (Who funded the Chechen rebels? Iran). And the Chinese will stand aside as they hate $100 a barrel oil....

And all our problems in the part of the world will abate, at least for a time.