“That will be a little too late, I think. Islam might be willing to sacrifice 80 million Iranians in order to get rid of Israel.”
Exactly, and they’ve said so.
Besides, it isn’t so easy to “destroy” a country that is as large as Iran and isn’t highly urbanized and industrialized. I don’t think even 200 1 megaton nuclear warheads would do it.
I think one in the middle of Irans desert would do the trick.
Launch is on a To Cruise from a sub.
Kill maybe a few camels.
Then smile.
The preferred complete destruction weapon against Iran would be neutron bombs. These are airburst weapons that would kill all life on the surface. While that are not believed to be in most nuclear inventories, they are not particularly hard to fabricate for a nuclear power.
This would likely give the Iranians from a few days to a month of slow and agonizing death, which the rest of the world would be able to watch.