I read most of the thread and the tensions between us(Iran) and Saudi Arabia is true but the tension between us the Iranian people and the Iranian regime is bigger then any other beef in the whole middle east. So any intervention would give us an opportunity to overthrow the regime from the inside this would most likely result in the Iranian military going against the Iranian government. But technacly speaking on paper as an Iranian visiting Iran each summer i have seen no SU 30 or Su27 or J10 i have only seen F4s, F5s ,F14s and Mig29 fighters while i understand we have a humble force of Su24s and 25s and the rest are captured Mirage and F7s from Iraq in a Air war with Isreal i dont know how well we would do our airforce is more designed at dealing with arab threats like Saudis,Iraqis or maybe Egypt if we wanted to defend from Isreal we would use anti aircraft missiles and AA guns. Now Irans pilots are well trained in the Iran Iraq war we owned over 200 Iraqi planes while losing less then 30 and with upgraded Mig 29s and F14s we can slow down a Isreali strike and buy enough time to protect the sophisticated civilian population that would be threatened by such an attack.