[VRWCTexan]

There are fears in Washington and London that if no deal is reached to at least temporarily defuse tensions by the end of December, Israel could set in motion plans to take military action aimed at setting back the Iranian programme by force, with incalculable consequences for the Middle East.

[Anti-Bubba182]

I don’t think Israel will strike because they can’t be sure of destroying the Iranian program. In the case of Iraq one strike did.

[skimask]

But...but...Bush is gone and everyone likes us now. Those evil JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooos have a bomb so way can’t Iran? /sarc

[Bean Counter]

What worries me is how willing Iran might be to take themselves down along with the World economy when the Israelis finally attack.

Lots of experts say that Iran would not close the Straits of Hormuz for example, because it would potentially hurt them as well, but given the proven jihadist mentality I think Iran would not hesitate to try and crash the world oil economy by closing the Straits.

But Iran has also conducted missile tests in the past that are disturbingly similar to an EMP attack, and a missile only need get a couple of hundred miles straight up over a target to do maximum damage with an EMP weapon.

Any number of scenarios are possible, and you have to consider what the Iranians are capable of doing if they do in fact have a novel way of making effective nuclear warheads. Keep in mind that they don’t need a lot of fissile material to be an enormous threat....

[gaijin]

You know how we know Israel will NOT attack? Because we do not hear vigorous statements that they will NOT.

Instead, we hear all this sabre-rattling, and that means they will NOT attack.

And here at FR we allll know very well how motivated our Dear Leader really is to Take Care of Biz.

So apparently we’ll all just click our ruby heels and scream there’s no place like home...

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Perdogg]

That means they probably have a small nuclear device and they are trying develop something like a W88.

[GOPJ]

James Acton, a British nuclear weapons expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: "It's remarkable that, before perfecting step one, they are going straight to step four or five ... To start with more sophisticated designs speaks of level of technical ambition that is surprising."

It's like saying a culture that can't figure out an internal combustion engine for a Model T type car is designing advanced jet propulsion systems for a space rockets... ( so who's helping them? Germans, Russians or our own stupid University system? )

[Billthedrill]

This is for a plutonium bomb. So, where would a bunch of people who are having difficulty refining uranium get plutonium? It’s a fairly short list, actually. The bad news is that the North Koreans are on it. The good news is that they haven’t solved this one yet either. But other people have, and that knowledge will be out there...for a price.

[DNME]

It would be more than safe to assume that Israeli intelligence has been studying the Iranian nuclear program in great detail for a very long time.

By now I’m sure Israel has identified all of the “choke points” in the Iranian program and all of their facilities and logistics. In fact, I’ll bet Israel already has dozens of “nuclear scientists” and other sleeper agents in place.

I’m just waiting to read about some terrible nuclear accident in one of Iran’s underground facilities. Hundreds dead, widespread contamination ... tragic!