Mutual threats have been repeatedly hurled in all directions, BB, by Iran, the USA, and Israel. If it was a situation in a town the police would arrest ALL those making such threats. They would arrest the USA, Iran, and Israel, and put them all on trial for uttering death threats in an unlawful fashion.

They have all said, in effect, "if you do so-and-so...or if I think you might do it...I'm going to kill you". That is a death threat, and it's illegal in civil law. It should also be illegal in international law (and it is in fact), but there's no neutral authority to enforce that law.

You can't have a lawful town if there is no neutral police force to enforce the laws equally.

As for open assault, the USA has openly assaulted and invaded other nations with its armed forces. That is a far greater crime than merely uttering death threats.

To put it simply, if the Iranians behaved as you do (meaning the American government you support) you would THEN have adequate cause to be as upset about them as you seem to be. You would then have total justification for war (assuming you had the power to undertake it with any hope of success).

Look, if ANY nation acted like the USA does in launching "pre-emptive" wars (wars of choice) and was NOT a military superpower with greater firepower than anyone else in the world, then many other nations in the world would soon go to war against it and crush it (like they did Saddam in 1991). You don't seem to get that. Hitler didn't get it either. People like Hitler, Bush, Cheney, Saddam, Mussolini, Tojo, Stalin...they never get it. All they believe in, really, is "might makes right".

They are their own justification in their own eyes. Other people don't have to see it that way.