Dianavan,

It is possible that the Iran/ AlQuaeda connection has about as much to do with each other as Iraq and 9/11.

Al Quaeda as I understand it is not beholden to any nation state.
It has been financed in Saudi Arabia and probably other Muslim countries but their raison d'etre is to drive American or any other foreign troops from what they consider to be their Muslim lands. It comes from the Mujahadeen formed in Afghanistan to defeat the Russians. It has to do with the concept of the Crusades which has a long history in that It's one theocratic viewpoint in conflict with another.

Frank