F-Secure has posted a bit of a FAQ to help people interested in understanding the Stuxnet worm issue to get more realistic information, versus the omg-CNN-style garbage that has been going around so far.
Is it targeting Iranian nuclear plants? We don't know.
All this conjecture reminds me of the days when hundreds of STONED virus variants were running rampant, and McAfee started pretending they were totally different, and gave them fancy names just to make them sound like different beasts. (for example, Michelangelo). The same virus, with 2 or 3 lines changed suddenly became a totally amazing technological advance hell bent on the worse possible destruction. Just sayin...
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