Iran's President Khatami is threatening the U.S.:

President Seyed Mohammad Khatami said here on Wednesday in a press conference that the occupying forces in Iraq should seriously refrain from attacking either holy Najaf, or Karbala.

Speaking to Iranian and foreign journalists after his cabinet meeting, the President added, "Such an attack would be equal to committing suicide for the US-led coalition, and would mobilize all sensations in Islamic world against the occupiers."

The President all the same expressed certainty, "I do not think the occupiers would be so simple-minded to do such a thing."

Some might say that doing nothing would be suicide - especially for the Iraqis.