Yeah, that would be a really bad move...Okay, so there is this thing called fallout. In a small geographic area you can expect Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt all to suffer from radiation exposure. The West Bank and Gaza will be 2 of the harder it areas.
I’m not saying these people are not stupid enough to do something like this but.....
Isaiah 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Yeah, that would be a really bad move...A nuclear weapon going off in Israel means the effective END of the middle east. They can and will nuke every other Arab country and the Persians (Samson).
Egypt widens Hizbollah crackdown
(got caught smuggling weapons from Egypt to Gaza Strip)
FinancialTimes.com | 4/13/09 | Anna Fifield
Posted on 04/13/2009 12:41:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228243/posts
Yes, there are some crazy fundamentalists that want to attack Israel with WMD.
There are some with these ideas among the Iranian leadership and probably Ahmadinejad have this view as well. But, they are a small minority in the Iranian elite.
Read this article about North Korea: http://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/lankov-nk-02202009171534.html There is a similarity with what Andrei Lankov describes about North Korea and Iran.
It is about the urge for stability. Read the article and replace North Korea => Iran (and China => EU)
“I would say the ideal outcome would be stability and gradual reforms. But is this achievable or not? Honestly, I don’t think it is, but China (=> EU) still hope to encourage the North Korean (=>Iranian) leadership to reform the country. I don’t think they will succeed. The North Korean (=>Iranian) leaders believe that reforms are inherently dangerous, very dangerous.”
My bet is that both North Korea and Iran will try to reach out to the West as the financial meltdown continues this year. The present elite in both countries will try to preserve their wealth, and as Lankov says:
“Their belief in the system is gone, but God knows how long this will continue. In the long term, the system is not sustainable. Everybody knows it, and maybe the leaders of the system understand it, but their major goal is to die peacefully in their own beds. Therefore, every year of their high life-style sipping Hennessy cognac is a small victory. They feel that the longer they stay, the better—even if they understand that in the long run they will be out of power. And many of them hope that the system will outlast their own life spans.”
Comment: Iran has around 25.4 percent inflation and is expected to be hit with a deficit of $44 billion through March 2010, according to a recent parliamentary research center report. The Iranian parliament has approved an annual budget of $298 billion based on $37.5 per barrel oil. The central government says it plans to cover the deficit with overdue taxes, dividend income from state-owned firms and $11 billion drawn from the oil stabilization fund (OSF). However, it is unclear whether enough funds remain. The new Iranian president (to be elected June 12) will have serious problems.
The only way Tehran will be able to get its economy in order is through a dramatic shift in its foreign policy that will provide the political opening for foreign investment in Iran. Can we expect that at the end of June, and an Iranian diplomatic mission in Washington 4th of July this year? It is possible, but is it probable?