NO they don't. NICE you and Paddy have feelings. Please stop confusing them with facts.
Israel is a very small country. It does not have a large enough air force to take out a country the size of Iran.
Israel does NOT have 200-300 nukes. In fact, the claim they have nukes at all is just so much rumor. There is no way to prove it since Israel has never conducted a nuke test.
As for the Iran attacking us in Iraq. The facts have been presented to you in dozens of threads. You simply put your hands over your eyes and scream "NO NO NO NO NO" That you want to cling to your emotional denial and "hide under the bed until the bed men go away" dogmas does NOT change the facts about Irans proxy war against US.
That you refuse, like Paddy, to see your silly Neo Isolationist dogmas are as unworkable in 2007 as Isolationism was in 1940 is YOUR problem, not ours. The rest of us all ready know how stupid this "hide under the bed" doctrine is in the post 09-11-01 world.
Israel does NOT have 200-300 nukes. In fact, the claim they have nukes at all is just so much rumor. There is no way to prove it since Israel has never conducted a nuke test.They most definitely do. They also have second strike capability(subs).
you may be right (now there is a scary thought)
maybe the Israelis don’t have nukes (and have only been bluffing-lying, kinda like Saddam)
that would sure explain their hyperventilating at Iran’s enrichment program
Why bother with a test if you have the designs of proven weapons that have been tested.
Israel has the nukes. What the hell do you think those reactors at Dimona in the Negev Desert are making. It ain't roses they are making.
Israel has enough nukes to reduce Iran's infrastructure to ashes. It would not take Iran off the face of the earth but Iran would cease to be a country and civil war would break out after an attack by Israel. Tehran has several million people in it. Two 250 kiloton weapons would take out millions. A strike on Iran's port facilities would render Iran penniless as she could not export oil. Israel can do this. However, this is the Samson option to bring the temple down on yourself and kill your enemies in the process. Israel would do this only after a first strike against them. Considering the size of Israel a first strike with just a few tens of weapons would destroy her as a nation. However, her military would still be able to carry out the Samson Option.