[Brilliant]

What was a surprise was the notion that they'd use nukes. That, incidentally, is the reason I thought the Israeli leak had some credibility. If they'd leaked that they were planning a conventional strike, I'd have thought it was just a smoke screen. I've been saying for a couple of years now that a conventional strike won't do it. Only a nuke strike will do it. So the fact that Israel now comes out and proposes it suggests to me that it's not just talk. They've actually done the engineering. And I think that Tehran has figured that out as well.

[Gay State Conservative]

IMO,Israel developed nukes for *exactly* the situation they now face with Iran.I,like you,understood long ago that Israel's conventional forces aren't robust enough to take on Iran.Any strike against Iran must be quick,clean and overpowering lest they succeed in creating chaos in the oil markets through blocking the Straits of Hormuz,etc.

I suspect that Iran's plan is to complete their nuke program *before* Israel realizes it...or hope that,in the end,Israel will lose its nerve.