It seems most unlikely that Iran would provoke an unnecessary war with the USA. So far, at least, the Iranian government has acted rationally from the standpoint of self preservation:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/iran-navy-chief-says-shutting-off-gulf-very-092339883.html
"Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy ... or as Iranians say, it will be easier than drinking a glass of water," Iran's navy chief Habibollah Sayyari told Iran's English-language Press TV on Wednesday.
"But right now, we don't need to shut it ...," said Sayyari, who is leading 10 days of exercises in the Strait.
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Japans fight with the USA was about sanctions applied to them over the war in China. Resulting in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Good point
The U.S. 5th Fleet may be a little harder to swallow than a glass of water.
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