This is claimed to be Israel's (no longer) secret war plan

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Agreed.

No need for a messy Air attack which may not knock the whole program anyway.

Israel's strategy so far: assassinations, sabotage, cyber attacks works as well and more importantly, is much less public.

It's a good strategy, and one that Israel is particularly skilled at.

Whether or not it's enough...remains to be seen.

[eddie]

Something to think about too is, the Quds forces using a proxy like Hezbollah to plant a dirty bomb in Isreal! It seems like that would be more their style anyway, concidering what they would face in launching a nuke armed missle.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by eddie

Something to think about too is, the Quds forces using a proxy like Hezbollah to plant a dirty bomb in Isreal! It seems like that would be more their style anyway, concidering what they would face in launching a nuke armed missle.

I think that is the most likely form that any Iranian attack would take, getting through Israels missile defences isn't particularly easy as Saddam found out years ago. Furthermore, why stop at Israel?

However, it would be pretty easy to trace the attack back to Iran though, and the retaliation would be...impressive.

[eddie]

The Iranians like to brag about how accurate their missiles are, which is more propaganda then anything else. So if there was an exchange of missiles between Isreal and Iran, imagine the position Jordan would be in. All those missles from Iran falling short, exploding everywhere in Jordan! Poor folks there, sitting around and minding their own business, when all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by eddie

Something to think about too is, the Quds forces using a proxy like Hezbollah to plant a dirty bomb in Isreal! It seems like that would be more their style anyway, concidering what they would face in launching a nuke armed missle.

Ha! You are right, I'm preaching this since years. The biggest threat beside the instability of a nuclear arms race in the ME is proliferation, and terror suitcase bombs. This worries me much more than scenarios with Iranian MRBM falling down from the sky.