BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus seems to think there's a case for it. However, that unintended consequence may spawn other unintended consequences.
Washington's destruction of the Taleban regime in Afghanistan and its toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq served to destroy Tehran's main strategic competitors.
For a brief moment Iran too feared US intervention. It was at this moment that Tehran appeared most willing to explore talks.
But the Americans' increasing problems in Iraq showed that for the Iranians the cloud of US ascendancy did indeed have a silver-lining.
Sunni re-alignment
Iran now was free to step-up its influence throughout the region - in Iraq, in Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories.
For much of the last two decades the US enjoyed an historic advantage in the region... Now though, we are seeing something fundamentally different
Richard Haass, US Council on Foreign RelationsSunni governments - like the Egyptians, the Saudis and the Jordanians - watched with horror as their fears of a new Shia ascendancy appeared to be coming true.
Such fears have prompted the beginnings of a re-alignment.
"Something is happening that could have a strategic potential," says Dennis Ross, the US peace envoy to the Middle East during the Clinton years.
Ambassador Ross dates the genesis of this to Saudi Arabia's criticism of Hezbollah during last summer's Lebanon war.
"Iran," he said, was perceived by many Arab states "as trying to seize control of the Israel-Palestine issue and was using Hezbollah and Hamas as tools".
This the Saudis and the other Sunni states saw as a threat because, as Ambassador Ross put it, "if the Iranians were in a position in which they could control the most evocative symbols in the region they could use it against these regimes".
Add in the widespread unease at Iran's nuclear activities and you have a potential new alignment where the moderate Arab states and Israel all share common interests.
