[Skybird]

Israel has quality superiority, no doubt, but I have very very strong doubts that it has the strength by numbers to run a war against Iran all by itself and destroy their program.

What they did in the past in singular strikes against an Iraqi and a Syrian reactor, is meaningless. A singular, limited strike with few forces does not compare, in no way, to a lasting military operation against a distant country the size of Iran and with such a rich target saturation that needs to be dealt with. Simply not enough planes and pilots. and what they did in one single mission 4 yeasrs ago and 20 years ago - what has that to do with how they can adress a totally different situation today? Do we judge the military power of Greece today by the battle of the Spartans against the Persians?

I also have very very strong doubts about their conventional bombs being capable to crack the vital targets that it is all about. Dealing with Iran'S CCCI and air defence is just an instrumental necessity to reach the real goal, the components of the Iranian nuclear program. A bomb, no matter the size and drop altitude, just cannot defeat the laws of physics. If the Iranians succeeded in hiding such installations deep enoigh in the ground and under thick enoigh layers of rocks, you just cannot reach them anymore, no matter the bomb you use.