Lets hope Iran picks up on that subtle hint... for their own good!
So whats the chance that Iran would attack Isreal directly after such an attack? I know it would be stupid for them to do so, but how smart is a nation that is openly looking for nukes, when its neighbor was invaded by the best military in the world for trying to make less dangerous WMD, a military that has you surrounded on two sides?
I'm not hopeful. These people -- the ones that make the decisions -- don't respond well to feedback or overt punishment, and have fewer scruples than Ramsey Clark. They'll make a suicide bomb of their entire nation, if they find the technology and find themselves cornered, then blow it up by cell phone from Geneva.
They're delusional, and their hatred of America and fervor to dominate the world makes us a more inviting target than Israel. Missile-capable nukes require much more advanced technology than nukes in Conex boxes on freightors, so we're about as easy to hit as Israel.
We simply cannot draw the line anywhere north of zero Iranian nukes.
That leaves us with a choice between eating a damned frog -- stopping Iran's development before they have operational nukes -- or eating a much larger toad -- dealing with a nuclear-armed Iran, and its first "test."