Iran and the bomb

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I do understand we have to see it from the Israels point-of-view.

And Europe's. Its not just the Israelis.

Iran however is too big and far away for Israel, I think they cannot do this all by themselves. The key installations are all buried deep into mountains now, thanks to the West who has given them the time to do that. You probably need several air waves to clean an aprppach ally intot he tasrghet areas, to supress air defence and air forces, and then drop nuke after nuke onto thes emo8ntains unto, they are flattened, so to speak.

Or, with an even greater political fallout, you drop one dirty bomb per location, toxifying the places for tens of thousands of years - and then risk they send suicide teams taking surviving equipment and material away, like the workers at Chernobyl got sacrified as well. I think the second scenario has the far greater political fallout - with the first already being "not nice".

Air Cav or commando operations I see no chance to succeed. So, no ground forces except special forces marking targets.