Israel Would Wipe the Floor with Iran… Nukes or Not

07 June 2010
John Bolton: Israel Must Strike Iran NOW
Iran Will Have Nukes Before the United Nations or Obama Do Anything

WND:

“Right now we know about the facilities. … We know where they are,” he said. “We know exactly what their dimensions are, and I think they are susceptible to an Israeli attack.”

Bolton said an Israeli military option “isn’t there forever. … If Israel is going to use military force, it needs to use it sooner rather than later.”… “Since I don’t see any possibility that the Obama administration will use military force, I think what that means – to cut to the chase – is this comes down to a decision by Israel whether or not it will use military force against Iran’s program.”

Bolton said he believes there is no doubt Israel possesses the military capability to hit Iranian nuclear sites, but he said the Jewish state would need to act soon.

“I think the problem is that the military option is declining day by day,” he said. “Every day that goes by is another day where the Iranians can build alternative facilities for uranium conversion, uranium enrichment weaponization, that are in unknown locations that are deeply buried or hardened and that Israel’s capabilities just can’t reach.”

Reaganite Republican (reported in June 2010)

Consider that Israel has 200+ atomic devices: while Iran may have one soon, it would not be weaponized just yet… so no way to deliver it to Israeli territory. Even if Iran bought miniaturized nuclear devices from another rogue state, then pulled-off some sort of small-scale “suitcase” nuke smuggled in by terrorists… Israel is capable of delivering a devastating retaliation equal to 2,000 Hiroshimas, turning all of Iran into a glass-floored, self-lit parking lot. While it’s commonly noted that the Persian state is much larger in area than Israel, the majority of Iran’s industry is concentrated -in Tehran- and located in a geographic bowl… almost perfectly situated to suffer maximum damage from an Israeli attack on Iran.

And Israeli nuclear weapons are all but unstoppable by Iran: Israel has created a system modeled on the US nuclear-deterrent “triad”: nukes thus possible from hardened silos, submarines, and/or aircraft… rendering Iranian first-strike fantasies implausible.  Israel has deployed Jericho missiles on mobile launchers and on underground wheeled transporter-erector-launchers and railroad flatbed cars, making effective pre-emption against them extremely difficult, especially for an unsophisticated power such as Tehran.

The Israeli Defense Forces can also deliver up to 80 nuclear-tipped cruise missiles launched by submarine, in addition to the other 120 warheads sent by ICBM or F15s/F16s. While this capability might not deter the apocalyptic cult in Tehran to the same degree it would logical, sensible, or moral strategists… any nuclear attack would result in instant vaporization of whatever part of Iran the Israelis deem necessary… in minutes. The trouble for the Iranians is that while they’re busy betting-the-house on jerry-rigging an Iranian bomb and talking trash like idiots, Israel quietly has their act together… is comprehensively prepared for any eventuality… and enjoys massive military superiority over them- that’s the reality of the situation.

Israel also sports the world’s most advanced anti-ICBM missle defense… one which may be impenetrable by Iranian missles . Iran can only deliver their 1-2 atomic warheads by ICBMs, once the master the weaponization of the Iranian bomb… and with no other delivery capabilities.

And according to a CSIS paper issued last year, the propaganda line favored by the Obama Administration –that an attack on Iran is wreckless and beyond the IDF’s capabilities- is bunk: Israel has enough aircraft as well as the necessary intelligence and electronic resources for the task , contrary to previous estimates.  And there is no need to destroy dozens or hundreds of sites, as has also been claimed; the destruction of seven to nine targets would be enough to cripple the Iranian program:

Lashkar A’bad site of secret uranium enrichment plants in the north near the Turkish border.
Tehranb for the central laboratory for developing atomic armaments as well as more uranium enrichment facilities.
Arak in central Iran, where a heavy water plant is under construction to manufacture plutonium for weapons.
Isfahan in central Iran, near which a small research reactor and a cluster of laboratories for uranium enrichment, centrifuges and weapons development, are situated.
Natanz the main center for uranium enrichment.
Ardekan at the southern tip of Iran, where more uranium enrichment facilities are located.
Saghand Iran’s main uranium mining region.
Bushehr on the Persian Gulf shore, Iran’s biggest nuclear reactor built by Russia.
Gachin near the Strait of Hormuz, the site of more uranium mines and enrichment facilities.

Jericho 3

Iran‘s government obviously feels that to legitimize the Mullah’s power, they need to foment trouble with outside enemies… used to divert attention from Tehran’s serial incompetence and cruel, oppressive dictatorship.  But if these 7th-century savages have any sense under those turbans, they need to stay out of a war they can’t possibly win.

Taking-on Israel would be a foolhardy endeavor of the first-magnitude: should Israel bomb Iran, it will mean the abrupt end of their heinous regime… along with much of the country too if these fiends are not toppled before they succeed in making make all of Persia an immediate -and fully legitimate- nuclear target.