Iran creates its own legal sinkhole

I’m thinking Iran’s latest ploy may well end up backfiring on them:

Iran’s judiciary said on Monday it would file international lawsuits against the United States and Britain, accusing them of providing financial support to those behind a blast in a mosque that killed 14 people.

Iran’s intelligence minister last week said Iran had arrested five or six members of a terrorist group with links to Britain and the United States who he said were involved in the explosion that also wounded 200 in the southern city of Shiraz.

An interesting precedent. So what happens when we countersue in international court, using the incontrovertible evidence of Iranian interference in Iraq? What about Iran’s funding of Hezbollah? What about their relationship with Al Qaeda?

Once they acknowledge the jurisdiction of the international court, it seems like Iran could quickly end up being hammered on the legal front. So I’m thinking this is good news.