And thus exposed is the fallacy of Reactive Defense vs. Pro-active Defense.
In the first case you allow yourself to be attacked, Nukes, Chemicals or maybe even Bio-War weapons. That way you have the ‘moral’ authority to defend yourself. Of course millions of people in your country might be dead but ‘you’ DO have the moral upper-hand. Whoop-te-do.
On the other hand a proactive defense says: Ok, They have threatened and told us exactly what they are going to do once they get the weapons they need. Fine then, Blow the shit out of them first and say, “You said this is what you going to do to us, now this is what you get for tryng to kill our people. Tough shit!”
The irony of all this especially the EMP angle is that the U.S. could pop a single EMP (non-nuclear IIRC) over Tehran that would degrade their command and control enough to have all of Iran in chaos within minutes. Without effective communications with their provinces the ayatollahs’ regime would be decapitated and the people would quickly respond.
JMHO.