Iran has already some nukes. israel is the size of iran capital one nuke and israel will disappear from map. but then again if israel dont use nuke still it gonna recieve alot of damage. due to its small size. oil price will hit 300-400$ a barrel. and even israel successfuly attack iran nuclear plants which are deep underground like 30 meters. it wont do much damage unless it use nuclear weapon againt them. and sure if it goes to a full war then syria and hezbullah will attack israel too.
It won't happen. It's just rattling their tails. Anyway, it's a strong signal to UN and all other Nations that it might happen sometime in the future if Iran doesn't open up and give full access to check their real intent. It didn't come by surprise since there will be a high level UN visit this month. The world is running out of patience. FROM ONE OF OUR ARTICLE CONTRIBUTORS, - IRANIAN There is so much smoke around the Iranian Mullahs' bomb that it makes Tehran's smog feel like a fresh ocean breeze, by comparison. Here is a partial list of misconceptions about the Mullahs, their capabilities and intentions about the whole nuclear bomb affair. The Mullahs: - Will never dare to use the bomb, even if they had it. To do so would be suicidal. - Are years away from anything resembling a credible bomb, in any quantity. - They lack the technological skills needed to make a workable bomb. - Don't have the means of hitting Israel with the bomb, their professed favorite target. - Want the bomb for defensive purposes only. - Would never hand the bomb over to proxy terrorists. - Are using this whole bomb thing as a ploy to rally the populace and survive. - Are visionary patriots planning for a future when the oil dries up. - Are environmentalists aiming to curb global warming caused by the use of fossil fuel. - Are striving to join the nuclear club for its prestige. And on, and on, and on, goes the litany. I believe, based on facts rather than wishful thinking, that every one of the above assertions, as well as all other similar dismissive arguments, are both false and fraught with danger because all the above arguments are confounded by various amounts of denial. Psychological denial is a common quirk of the human mind. People use denial to distort, even refute reality, when accepting it is too threatening to them. Alcoholics are habitual users of denial, a major tranquilizer of the mind. The alcoholic will adamantly deny having any problem with alcohol and continue to drink, even in the face of irrefutable contrary evidence. Denial is resorted to by both individuals and groups, and can be just as deadly for both. Perhaps the most compelling dismissive argument is that the Mullahs would never dare to use the bomb, since it would be suicidal to do so. This argument is just as flawed as the rest. The "mutual deterrence" argument may work in state-to-state confrontations. It apparently has worked in the past and the hope is that it will work in the future. However, the mutual deterrence argument fails when a non-state entity is the adversary. The Mullahs don't have to lob a bomb at Israel or at anyone else to inflict huge damage. They can pursue their cause of death and destruction by simply providing their killers with dirty bombs in a suitcase. Given the Mullahs' fanaticism and Machiavellian nature, they would come up with a myriad of clever schemes to achieve their objectives. Consider dirty bombs. They are easy to make, are portable, can kill as well as even make a city uninhabitable, without leaving a "finger print." The Mullahs can go to work then turn "innocently" to the international community for help to find a group of rogue radicals, so they claim, who had penetrated their facilities and made off with a loot of radioactive material. It is not as if events like this have never happened in the past. Deadly stolen radioactive materials have found their way to the black market on a number of occasions. The world would respond in panic, yet with its usual arthritic sluggishness search for the miscreants. Given how clumsy and disorganized the world's intelligence community is, the prospect of acting expeditiously, much less apprehending the "thieves", is not very encouraging. This is particularly the case when the Mullahs themselves would have a short leash on the "thieves," to hide them and deploy them only with the greatest of care. Iran's ruling Mullahs are clustered around major factions such as the conservatives, the moderates, and the so-called reformists. Yet, the differences among these factions are tactical rather than strategic. One and all share the same overarching goal of defeating the "Crusader-Zionists" by any and all methods possible; bringing about the "end of the world" Armageddon; and, thereby creating the requisite conditions for the appearance of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, to assume his rule of the world. Therefore, it is "Carteresque" (foolish risk-taking a la Jimmy Carter's throwing in America's lot with the Mullahs during the 1979 Iranian Revolution) to overlook the fact that it is Islam, irrespective of any and all considerations, that poses a deadly threat to the world. Choosing one faction over another is no choice at all. What is the likelihood that the ruling Mullahs will actually use the bomb? If they remain in power long enough to have it, they are very likely to use it, in one form or another. At the very least, they will use the bomb for blackmail and intimidation in the region. Not even the all-out nuclear exchange can be ruled out. Extreme Islamism is centred on death with the eyes of the faithful fixed on the afterlife and its promised eternal pleasures. If the faithful kills, he goes to Allah's paradise; if he gets killed, he goes to Allah's paradise. The Mullahs' claim that they are pursuing the nuclear program to meet the country's energy needs could only fool the most gullible denial type. Why is it that the Mullahs invest nothing at all in stopping the leak of more than six percent of the precious oil they pump out? For every 100 barrels, six barrels of Iran's irreplaceable national treasure dissipates at the wellhead. Yet, they spend billions of dollars to harness nuclear energy. Just as troubling is the fact that Iran sits on one of the world's most dangerous earthquake fault lines. Building nuclear plants on sites such as the one in Bushehr is absolute insanity. Speaking of insanity, Ahmadinejad comes to mind. He is dismissed as being a zany fanatic who shouldn't be taken seriously for his bomb-rattling threats. But this type of dismissiveness can prove deadly. Recall that even the multi-billionaire former president of Iran Rafsanjani, a man seen by many as moderate and a shrewd live-and-let-live type, has publicly announced that a single bomb would finish off Israel while the Muslims would suffer a setback from which it can easily recover. The Mullahs are proven vicious mass killers. They summarily executed tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents. They had no qualms about sending thousands of children to clear the minefields ahead of their tanks during the 80s war with Iraq and they have thousands of "martyrs" brainwashed and prepared to serve as bomb mules to be dispatched to any place in the world. Sadly, once again it is the peak of "Me First" time with American politicians. Like sharks, they are circling the "bleeding" lame President, busily sniping at him and hoping to take his place. In the meantime, the real enemy, Islamofascism, is forging ahead toward its goal of dominating the world. I have been warning that it is a deadly miscalculation to engage in infighting, and sit and wait out this emerging catastrophe. It is little more than an exercise in denial to believe that nothing bad will happen, and that the corrupt, inept Mullahs will likely shoot themselves in the foot instead of wreaking havoc on the world. I also keep pleading that we should forthwith help the Iranian democratic oppositions send the death-bearer Mullahs back to their mosques. It is the free world's best and most urgent option. What sane person would want to take a chance to wait and see if the mad Mullahs, once they have the bomb, would use it or not? Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American citizen and pro-democracy activist residing in the United States of America.
it's amazing how much crap you guys talking. 1. I am not decrying in Iran's military power, but you are just talking rubbish. "Iran's military is strong" - from where do you know that? you work in the CIA? the Mossad? "Iran's military is much more powerful then Iraq's military" - sure, that's why didn't win Iraq in Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988), and Iran's casualties were much bigger. 2. Israel, USA, UK want war? and the Arabs and Iran don't want war? that's why Iran threat on Israel in any chance? or that's why that the Terrorists in Gaza fired more 65 rockets and mortars ro Israel from the morning until now? 3. Iran already have nuclear warheads? as far as we know, they don't have. and unless you are working in the CIA or the Mossad, you can't know that. 4. Iran can win simply if USA won't help? OH, THAT'S WHY ISRAEL WON IN 1948, 1967, 1973, 1982? BECAUSE USA DIDN'T HELP DIRECTLY. 5. I was ready to hear anything you say, but that was the peak: "like what happend in 1973 when israel tried to attack egypt" - GO LEARN HISTORY! in 1973, in the middle of "Yom Kippur", one of the most important holidays of Jews, when people don't do anything but praying (No eating, drinking, using electricity, drive car... for 25 hours), Egypt and Syria attacked Israel and they caught Israel unready. in the and Israel crashed them to pieces and captured more lands. those lands returned in the cease-fire agreement after the war. 6. Israel is small.. so? better to be small & strong then big & weak.
i agree with you. i would like to see a list of things iranians have to do to show their benign intensions i don't really believe the iranian expatriots. they are where cubans used to be a few years back, We should not make another cuba. I will read the article later .
omg okei let me open you Iraq attack begin immediately after revolutionary chaos in Iran. most of pilots, commanders, technicians left iran after revolution so iran was very weak and unorganised. if you read iran-iraq war history you notice those pilots, commanders, technicians return and iran gained a lot of power and was on offensive side iraq was even ready to pay $70 billion in war reparations. but in late war because of US sanction and due to the fact that most of iranian weapons and aircrafts was US made so iran ran out of spare parts and weapon for its aircrafts like phoenix missle for F14 tmcat fighters. and IRaq with help of US and european countries used alot of WMD against iranians the final result was no one win anything. after that iran keep reverse enginiering and made its own aircrafts like Azarakhsh, Saeqeh,Shafaq etc.. now count how many countries are capable of making its own bomber, fighter etc.. the fact is if israel was capable of attacking iran it already did without any sound like it did in 1981 distroyed iraqi plant and recently syrian one. other factor is oil, iran is the Second OPEC oil exporter with nearly 4 million barrel a day. and also Search for Strait of Hormuz in google to see what it means.
it's cute how you defend Iran.. do you have a date with her? I don't buy this excuses and bullshit, Iran didn't manage to defeat the Iraqi army, and the excuse of "just after the revolution", 1988 is also "just after the revolution"? They are making their own planes? WOW! amazing! their planes are not better then our planes. moreover, did you hear about the "Merkava" tanks? "Ofek" satellites? "Hetz" system? "Jericho" rockets? those weapons are the best in the world in their kind, and a lot more... BTW you don't need to teach me what the Strait of Hormuz are.
USA would destroy nothing. What's going on in Afghanistan? What's going on in Iraq? Who's winning? Who's losing? When Israel and US have nuclear power it's ok, but when another country has, then it's a problem. How funny.
well i am not defending iSrael nor do i defend iran. Btw there wont be a clear winner if even a war happens between iran and israel. because if iran use nuke and distroy israel which is very small , there are israeli submarins that can diliver after nukes anytime. I just gived you a history lesson , you should be grateful btw i seen how Merkava tanks work in last Israel hebullah war.
There's different models for the Merkava. The lastest is the Merkava Mk4 that was recently introduced.
If some guy lived down the street from me and made no bones about telling all my other neighbors that he was building a gun in his garage, and that, one night, after this was done, he would visit my home and rain destruction on everyone in it. I'd be pretty crazy to do absolutely nothing. First I'd go to the police (let's call them the IAEA) but when the go to check out the man's garage they are not let in. Bizarrely this is sufficient for them to turn around and go home, doing nothing. So then, I appeal to the community at large, any all neighbors willing to listen, to help proterct me from this threat and to make him stop building his weapon in his garage. But they can or will do nothing. And every morning and every night, I hear him pounding away in his garage. I have children, loved ones in my home. I am simply NOT going to wait for this lunatic to complete his task in his garage, nor execute his promised threat to me and my family. Here's the funny thing though, after the guy threatens me with killing me and my entire family over in my house, you want me NOT to do something saying if I do he will kill me and my entire family??? But if I do nothing he surely will kill me and my entire family in my own home. He's already told everyone as much. Personally, I think I'll take my chances stopping him in his garage before he walks across the street, points the gun at our heads, and pulls the trigger.
Israel has a nuclear power to defend itself. Israel is not the one who started this war. if Iran were to have a nuclear power now, it wouldnt be for protection but for using it against Israel.
Nuclear weapon is very destructive. There will be a lot of life that will be sacrificed if this upcoming war will pursue. I just hope both country will talk about it.
1."Merkava 4" tank is one of the best tanks in the world, and in the last war Israel almost didn't use it. BTW - in guerilla warfare - Hizbollah's warfare, tanks are almost useless. Against active army, like Syria's army, they can be very useful and dangerous. 2. The point is to attack Iran's nuclear reactors now, before she will have nuclear warheads, for preventing the "destroying of Israel". Got it?
Read the updated news in AP site dude and don't call me liar...it's you who know nothing... according to the news, Israel with use bunker blaster atomic bombs and the damage is already pre-estimated... Israel's bases are missile-proof... If Israel is eliminated, then that would be a world war 3..
Media brainwashed some people here. Why the hell should iran use a nuclear weapon against israel?! There is not reason for it. its just propaganta from israeli side.maybe they want those f22?! because if iran use nuclear weapon against israel it will the end of both countries. because after a nuclear war we can read about those Merkava tanks in history books , and you gonna ride donkey instead of cars when oil price hit 500$ a barrel.
Have you forgotten murdered children and people during the Hizbullah - Israel war? What have Israel used in that war? Israel is not defending itself, Israel is destroying itself because of the war screams of itself. My country, Turkey, is one of the biggest allies of Israel, but the public, including me do not want an Israel country that is killing our religion brothers and sisters, more than that killing innocent people.
It's Hisbollah who killed them because they are hiding behind civilians..they did not fight like a man... and do you hear that captured suicide bombers saying they are forcefully abducted by terrorists to train bombings? Hamas, Taliban,Al Qaeda Hisbolla, Kurs all are terrorists and all are arabs.... I don't believe in arabic alliance because they are destroying each other... take a look what saddam did to thousands of civilians... And I don't understand why there's a lot of Arab terrorists....
i hate war but i am sure the loser will be israel if israel attacked iran coz hezballah will difenetly enter the war and syria will also get involved i donot think any country can fight in 3 fronteirs and win lebnon >> hezballah syria iran