The alleged plot alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi
ambassador and high-risk behavior for Tehran defy the "rationale
actor" presumption that lies at the heart of nuclear deterrence
nj oct 10 p.JPG  Saudi ambassador to the United States Adel A.
al-Jubeir welcomes U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi upon her
arrival in Riyadh / Reuters   If it proves true, Tuesday's
announcement by senior Obama administration officials that the
Quds Force--the elite special-operations unit of Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guard--was linked to a plot to assassinate the
Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in Washington,
D.C., and subsequently bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies
here, clearly crossed a post-9/11 redline.  Attorney General
Eric Holder announced the arrest of one naturalized U.S. citizen
and the warrant for an Iranian at large for conspiring to bomb
and kill Saudi Arabian Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir and allegedly
planning to blow up the two embassies.   The plot was "sponsored
and ... directed from Iran and