[shield]

Qom facility. It's buried deep - so deep that probably only nerve gas dropped with penetrator weapons down the ventilation shafts could do the job.

Plus the urban location means a lot of civilian casualties, regardless of whether anyone cares about blasting an ersatz "holy" city.

Which means the Israelis now must shift their strategy from an attack on the Mullahs' nuclear facilities to an attack on the Mullah regime itself. There is a term for this. It's called a Decapitation Strike.

Wipe out the Presidential Palace, the HQ of the Al Quds and Pasdaran forces, the Basiji offices, the command-and-control centers, collapse the regime, incapacitate it from reasserting its authority. The Mullah regime would be history in 24 hours. During the resultant anarchy until a new government is formed (or governments, as Iran may well break apart), commando teams can be inserted to demolish the nuclear facilities on the ground.

I know this is being considered - but will Bibi give the final thumbs up? Only Bibi knows. Per Jack Wheeler

[StolarStorm]

It would be a good start, but I'm not sure bombing the facilities would wipe out the Mullah regime. I'm sure they are expecting an attack and have provisions in place to be dispersed.

Now of course, if such an attack gives the green demonstrators a chance to exert themselves... that would do it. But I'm not sure we can rely on the protesters.

Sadly, this is looking more and more to me like it would require a full scale invasion... God help us.

[VRWCTexan]

Agreed - makes a lot of sense

Thus whenever guys like Gates whine and opine that somehow a strike on Iran will, at best case, only delay Iran's nuclear plans by a couple of years - I start screaming at the TV

[Shady]

I hope so, it may in fact be the last chance to save all of us.