The authors present an elaborate straw man, and, not surprisingly, find fault with it. In reality, they don’t know how Israel would execute a strike, or Iran’s reaction to it. They also don’t know whether deterrence will work.
I’d think it likely, if the Iranian government were terribly concerned about Israeli retribution to a nuclear strike, that they’d attack Israel via one of their surrogates, who aren’t. They would calculate that they would thereby have sufficient deniability to avoid nuclear retribution.
Furthermore, I think there’s a significant chance that the Iranian government would not care if there were Israeli retribution, and would go ahead and nuke Israel, come what may.
moosie nut jobs in Iran think if they die taking out Israel they will be heros in their Heaven.
Israel had better quit pooping around and get to it.
Why they didn’t do it before the obamma turd took over is beyond me.