An Iranian nuke fired against Isreal is counter-productive.
To begin with, any destruction of Isreal is bound to result in the destruction of the "Palestinian Authority" that all Muslim countries have championed for 60 years. It would kill far more Muslims than it would Jews. It would demonstrate, once and for all, that the Muslim solidarity behind support for the Palestinians was always rhetoric.
The blast, and the fallout, would pollute or destroy Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey virtually forever. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and parts of Iran itself would also be contaminated, if not destroyed. Great way to maintain good relations with your Islamic brothers.
Teh resulting devestation and fallout would shut down a signifigant portion of the world's oil production, wrecking every economy on the planet, but hurting the Muslims the most. Iran cannot continue to prop up it's Fundamentalist Potemkin village with oil revenues. It will be ripe for conquest or internal revolution without them.
No, Iran is not seeking nukes to wipe Isreal off the map, even if that is the stated goal. The real goal is to create a new center of Islamic power. The choice used to be between Saddam and the Ayatollahs. The list just got shorter. What the mullah-cracy intends to do with it's new-found influence and power is harder to discern.
With the Iranians boxed in between United States forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Russians to the north, Chinese to the East and India to the south(all non-Islamic, nuclear powers with much greater conventional military strength than the Iranians), the threat of nulear annhilation is the only weapon that might actually guarentee Iranian security while they create their new, Islamic Reich.
It would kill far more Muslims than it would Jews.
Maybe not depending on the size , number and placement of the bomb(s)
The blast, and the fallout, would pollute or destroy Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey virtually forever. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and parts of Iran itself would also be contaminated, if not destroyed.
I'm not buying that. We set at least one atomic bomb off in this country above ground without anything like that happening.
Great way to maintain good relations with your Islamic brothers.
Most of the so-called Islamic brothers are heretics and not engaged in Jihad. The Jihadists are not worrying about Kilian heretics. As they found out in Iraq and Jordan.
The resulting devestation and fallout would shut down a signifigant portion of the world's oil production, wrecking every economy on the planet, but hurting the Muslims the most.
Chaos is what they want. The Mahdi is the Twelfth Imam, supposed to return at the End of Days in the Shi’ite version of Revelations. The more fanatical “Twelvers” believe that they have a duty to create worldwide chaos to hasten the day of return.
Iran cannot continue to prop up it's Fundamentalist Potemkin village with oil revenues. It will be ripe for conquest or internal revolution without them.
That's why the Jihadists need to use the bomb: before the Infidel collaborators topple the Mullahs in Iran.
No, Iran is not seeking nukes to wipe Isreal off the map, even if that is the stated goal.
We might have the luxury of waiting and seeing, but it is life or death for those in Israel.
If they develop several bombs we will be targeted also. And they won't worry about the consequences anymore than Mohammed Atta and the others did. -Tom