Its in Americas interest to take millitary action againt Iran rather than leave it to Israel. Assuming Israel can pull it off there is still only limited damage Israel can do based on its geography and equipement. The US has at least 2 carrier fleet and air bases in the Gulf. They have access to more hardware and are in a position to dmage more than Irans neuclear facilities and not putting a single soilder onto the ground. Send in the bombers destroy Irans air defenses, sink their navy while they the ships are still docked, detsroy as many airfirlds as possible and try find and destroy as many rocket launchers as possible. Chemical weapon labs and finaly the neuclear facilities. With hundreds of fighter jets, tomohawk missles, heavy bombers the US can do alot of damage and Iran will be in no shape to retaliate. It may lead to Iran using Syrian territory to carry out a ground war but neither Syrian or Iranian tanks are a threat to Israel and Israel has superior air power if Iran decided to launch an airwar from Syria. Whoever carries out attacks Israel is in for some kind if Iranian relaliation but better to fight a small conventional war now which Israel does well when its organised properly rather than face a potential neuclear war later. Diplomacy is a joke for over a year now we have been running around in circles diplomaticly while Iran has continued to develop its neuclear program so if Bush & Olmert want to do somethng usefull in the region before they go how about dealing with Iran,

Well, you zionist are great in pushing the stupid cowboys to committ stupid actions like hitting your enemys rather than doing that urselves. Then the cowboys looses as usual and you win !!!!!!!!!! well, I cant tel you you something; dont think that you zionists are clever, its just you are in contorl of a super power that has a "dog" brain, America

Do not make mistake. If so then we must destroy you. Isreal will be vapourized and toxiced for decates, no doubt about it. Iran now is super strong and very powerful. do not be fool yourself with iran situation after 1979 revolution and iraq war. Iran was weak that time for a short period because of revolution, but it is not case now. your ordinary poor people will pay ultimate price for your politicians mistake. Why do you think you can do something that US publicly say she can not and will not. Iran will not give you the chance to use your nukes. You will not have time to use them.95000 missile in first minute of your assualt will be launched on you. Use your brain.

long live iran

Your calculation of iran's response is missing a big part-retaliation against israel through hezbollah and maybe syria . thousaands of missiles will be launched including from iranian territory at population centres and dimona and key power/oil plants.PLO sucicidal waves will be launched within israel through israel arabs as well. It will be all out war. Iran has a great advantage in that Olmert is the PM and he will be afraid to reply in all out form. He would only do the minimal and then plead with the US to bail him out.

you know, tayfun, throughout arab history, everytime they opened their aggressive mouth against israel and instituted wars of annihilation (main purpose) , the same rhetoric came out of their mouths, the same bravado, the same dellusional warnings, the mother of all battles???, the mother of all jewish deaths? we'll wipe the jews off the map....etc... we'll dig jewish graves, etc... and throughout all this bravado rhetoric, they all still lost all the wars. have you no clue why you can't uproot israel from the mid east yet? have you thought about it? the answer is in the brains, not in the mouth. got it?

It is the hate articles like this that put us in this position. US was forced in to Iraq by the similar propeganda from interest groups like this. Now, we are paying the price with high oil prices, bad economy and no jobs. Thank you Isreal to be such a good ally. The dollar is the weakest it has ever been and every time we treaten Iran the oil goes up. Negotiations is the key to all conflicts. Unfortunately, president Bush is not smart enough to take advantage of that. the world would be a much safer place when he leaves office.

You seem to forget that the first wave of retaliation will NOT come from Iranians, nor from Arabs, but from Americans, France, Germany, etc. And NOT just with violent surge of antisemitism - that will leave OLD and UNPROTECTED JEWS in the open, Jews WHO CANNOT SIMPLY "pick up their suitcases and run to Israel" - but also with ANGER that will strike bring! And I mean here even friendly governments! You all seem to forget that Iran is the 3rd biggest oil supplier, and that even right now, as we all here are writing, the price of oil is bigger than 140$/barrel! Imagine the price after that! And for all you that do not know, just DRIVING cars is the simplest way of oil usage - the more unknown way is refining to make PLASTIC! So everything that contains plastic will go up! On the triple, quadruple etc! And I even did not mention the economic crisis that will hit Israel, nor I touched the attack that will come first from Hezzballah and Hamas, then from Syria and to the last from other "friendly" arab states that will suddenly see their opportunity to butcher the land! Collective blood bath, all over again, but this time, without telling how will that all end! Oh, well, maybe it is the best. The longer I think about it, more and more I see that one, great war with millions of Arabs and Jews dead is the only thine that will solve things and feed the blood-thirsty idiots from both sides. My country just left the war a while a go, I am in no hurry to see dead children on the streets again.

Because they will fear "the big USA jacks" and "boyz from da hood" let me remind them that Iran cold heartedly sacrificed many of its men in Iraq-Iran war, that they have suicide bombers, that they are ideologically totally washed and, last but not least, they cannot afford NOT to respond! Because they are fighting with Saudi Arabia over the throne of "Arab Leader" and cannot afford to look weak and ridiculous!

If you think this time we can attack another country and get away with it, think again, this time, in case of an attack by US or Israel, all of us Israelis will go underground like rats, we will never to go out again, the lucky ones might find a chances to go back were they came from, Russia, poland, or ethiopia, lets stop war mongering and seek peace, been in war for over 100 years, yet still sleep unsafe.

oil rise to $200...After this all world EAT Israel...

I sense and hope it will happen soon so we can move on with daily business. I will not miss the Iranian devils.

I agree with the Iranian man. Those are strong and sexy warriors.

I hope all of your military commanders, leaders, and nut job mullahs think they way you do. Have you ever heard of a submarine. You know the thing that has nuclear tipped popeye cruise missiles that is sitting underwater off of the coast of Iran. Forcast for Iran, Hot and Radioactive with a slight breeze and nuclear fallout. I cant wait till u jerk offs vaporize u are all douche bags.

What do you think, John, #9, that Europe will be left out of a war? Europe is Edom and Edom will be destroyed. Read your Bible.

The hysterical choir threatening, asking, advising us not to attack Iran is doing us a great service: it tells us that the time to attack Iran is NOW, not later. Later we will deal with worldwide Nuclear blackmail - now we deal with conventional terror. And don't forget the words of your own Top Monkey: if you threaten the existence of a country and people, expect the most extreme action in response! This goes for Israel too. Brace yourselves!

As an "Iranian" immigrated in Canada, you are betraying your Iranian brothers and should return to join the revolutionary guard....or whatever is left of it .....Ask yourself only what question : If Iran is such a great place to be , what are you doing in La Belle Province ?

With sticks and stones...

Now the Jewish people have their own homeland and we cetainly do not need to fear anti-semites like you. If we need to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities then it will be due to European countries that did business with Iran rather supporting sanctions.

I am surprised that the author does not know the answer. If we bomb Iran then the world will support Israel. If, on the way to Iran, our planes will be destroyed then the world will blame Israel for everything. Simple and clear. Did this author ever served in IDF?

and a poor disguise at that.

sooner or later Israel will destroy itself, if they hit Iran the hell's gates will open and Mashroom cloulds and radiation will take everything in a country so little where you can see all of it by naked eye from a hilltop. Iran don't need a Nuclear weapons to destroy israel, they need to hit the existed ones, and the size of the country won't make it impossible to do so. You might see the beginning of this war, but who knows who will survive to see the end of it? unless ofcourse you live in NY, or LA or somewhere safe.

So please! Go on with Oil prices, suicide bombers, missiles and world antisemitism. We will survive "Iranian" respond. What we cannt survive is Iranian NUCS

when Israel attacks Iran ,the iranians Syrians and palestininians will try to retaliate against Israel and US interests in the Gulf and Saudi Then Israel and the US WILL DESTROY ALL THE ARAB NATIONS AND IRAN AND THEN THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE OIL CRISIS AND CREDIT CRUNCH WILL BE FINISHED see Malbim on Ezekial ch 32 last half Rashis comment on Koheles ch3v3 and Talmud Yoma 10AND ZACHERIAH CH14 Therefore the only solution to the world.s problems is to attack Iran this fact should encourage Israel to attack Iran as possible

The US and EUROPE ARE PUSHING iSRAEL TO ATTACK iRAN BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE OIL CRISIS AND FINANCIAL MELTDOWN IN THE WORLD AND THUS IT GOES PEAR SHAPED WHICH IT DEFINETLY WILL NOT BECAUSE THIS IS G-D'S PLAN TO EXPAND ISRAEL FROM THE NILE TO THE EUPHRATES THE WORLD CAN BLAME ISRAEL

The west has had 35 years warning of the danger of relying on arab/moslem oil since this weapon was first used against the west, for not condemning Israel for defending itself against arab aggression in the Yom Kippur war. Not only that but the profits from arab/muslim oil have financed terrorism and allowed the Iranians to develop their nuclear bomb. So now the Iranians threaten that if they are not allowed to build a bomb and nuke Israel, they will disrupt the oil supplies to which the west is addicted. Break the addiction now!