Israel, Iran, and the Bomb

[Pawn Power]

Focus: Mission Iran (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-2535177-524,00.html)


Israel will not tolerate Iran going nuclear and military sources say it will use tactical strikes unless Iran abandons its programme. Is Israel bluffing or might it really push the button? Uzi Mahnaimi in New York and Sarah Baxter in Washington report

The threat of Isreal deploying nuclear weapons to halt Iranian nuclear development will surely cause a stire. However, with a loom of invasion of Iran by the superior forces of US/Isreal the creation of a nuclear deterrent would seem to be their only defence.

[Spirit of Spartacus]

Bring it on.

They'll be humiliated once again, like they got kick-assed by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

[Brownfist]

Firstly, there is no chance that the Israeli's would ever deploy nuclear weapons against the Iranians. This is due to the complete ostracism that they would receive from the international community. However, I do think that there is a very good chance that the Israeli's would engage in a tactical strike using conventional air-to-ground weapons. There actually has been some research done on how nuclear weaponry does not provide a nuclear deterrence , however, I have not looked into it. Secondly, the Israeli's would have to openly admit to having a nuclear weapon program which till date has consistently denied. This would of course then require Israeli coordination with the appropriate agencies which it has always tried to avoid.



Bring it on.

They'll be humiliated once again, like they got kick-assed by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

I think that this is a very cavalier attitude, especially since you are not one of the persons who would be negatively effected by such an attack. Any nuclear strike, no matter how isolated, would have profound effects on the mass Iranian population. You sound like Bush when he used the same phrase to describe the Iraqi insurgency.