Thread: Iran NEXT?
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Old 11-11-2011, 05:30 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT View Post
Obama isn't likely to stick his neck out on this, as usual. He'll leave it to the Israelis, who will never allow Iran to possess nuclear weapons, and they are absolutely justified in doing anything necessary to prevent that. If Iran got nuclear weapons, it would be insane to assume they wouldn't use them against Israel, and it would be insane to assume they wouldn't supply them to terrorists.
Israel has what, perhaps several hundred nukes. How many of these do you think are safely outside of Israel?

Iran isn't going to nuke Israel. They want to assert themselves in the region in opposition to Saudi Arabia if anything. The proxy fight via Hezbollah is too easy.

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