It's All a Zionist/American Plot!

I'd like to think that America has the premiere conspiracy theorists in the world. Certainly our guys are capable of coming up with truly unbelievable scenerios about everything from the 9/11 attacks, the 2000/2004 elections, to the war in Iraq. However, they're getting some competition from the Iranian press with this story:

Iranian hardline newspapers said there were signs of an Israeli-US plot behind remarks by Pope Benedict XVI that linked Islam to violence and created a wave of anger across the Muslim world.

The daily Jomhuri Islami said Israel and the United States -- the Islamic republic's two arch-enemies -- could have dictated the comments to distract attention from the resistance of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah to Israel's offensive on Lebanon.

"The reality is that if we do not consider Pope Benedict XVI to be ignorant of Islam, then his remarks against Islam are a dictat that the Zionists and the Americans have written (for him) and have submitted to him."

"The American and the Zionist aim is to undermine the glorious triumph of Islam's children of Lebanese Hezbollah, which annulled the undefeatable legend of the Israeli army and foiled the Satanic and colonialist American plot," it said.

Yep, it's those pesky Jews again. Hoo-boy, don't the Iranians realize that if the Israelis are so incredible powerful that they can make the Pope criticize Islam and stir up worldwide resentment against him and the Catholic Church, that they have no hope of every defeating them?