Abii
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But, history tells us the Israel is a red line for the US.... Even if the US is not involved, Israel can attack Iran alone.
no offense but spoken without any knowledge
1) Israel bombed Iraq's Osiraq because the distance was 1/3 of the distance to an average IRanian target.
2) Israel was able to fly near the ground, thus avoid being detected by Iraqi radars, because the entire distance was desert; 2/3 of Iran is all mountain and Iran has the highest mountain ranges in the region. A similar technique is practically impossible.
3) Israel only needed 7 planes and no fuel jets to bomb Iraq. It will need its entire airforce, plus support planes to bomb more than 100 nuclear and non-nuclear installations in Iran. In doing so, it will need to refuel 2-3 times on Iranian airspace, during which time the planes are completely vulnerable. Giant fuel planes are also target practice for any anti air system. This is practically impossible, which is why Israel hasn't attacked yet and why Iran has been able to continue and advance its program for more than 3 decades.
4) Iran's Bushehr reactor is loaded with fuel, bombing it would be no different than dropping a nuke on Kuwait. The released radition would kill off half the khaleeji population lol
5) Iran's retaliation could potentially erase Israel off the map. Iran has enough stockpiled bio and chem weapons to kill off half of Europe and has more than the necissary means to deliver them. This would be the same as nuking tiny Israel. Does Israel want to gamble when Iran has this card? If they want to live then they wouldn't.
6) the likelyhood that 60-100 underground targets can be destroyed in one bombing mission is practically impossible, even if Iran didn't even have a military.