Iran warns Israel not to attack its nuclear facilities

[alp227]

Iran has warned Israel against mounting an attack on its nuclear facilities amid rising international tension over its uranium enrichment programme.

General Ahmad Vahidi issued a statement warning Israel that an attack would lead to the collapse of the Jewish state.

The warning on Iran's state-run Press TV website came after a UN report said Iran had tripled its production rate of enriched uranium over the past three months.

The confidential report to member states, seen by the Guardian, also states that Iran is refusing to co-operate with an investigation into evidence that the country may have worked on designing a bomb.

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/25/iran-warns-israel-attack-nuclear

[teddy51]

1. It certainly makes one wonder if Iran has something that could prove fatal to Israel if they

do attack. Apart from the fact that Iran has 70 million people as opposed to Israel's 8 million, I am wondering what they have.

[Fool Count]

2. They don't have anything. Just like Isreal, probably, doesn't have the means to take out

all Iran's nuclear facilities on its own. It's just bluster on both sides. A high-stakes poker game.

[OVERPAID01]

3. Current military status

There are currently NO bombs capable of penetrating the facilities in Iran. If you research/remember the first attacks on Iraq in Desert Storm, we had to make the bunker busting bombs from old tank nozzles from WW2. The Iranian facilities were built deeper into the ground with far more armor than anything produced up to now. The lack of armaments are the reason, and probably the only reason Israel hasn't attacked them years ago. Syria was attacked by Israel within weeks after building their first reactor. That being said, the reason for the procrastination is also due in no large part, when it is taken into account that Iran is feircely independant. Think in terms of the U.S. back in the 40's we built our own equipment and weapons and developed our own systems, no outsourcing and no sharing info. Iran operates in the same fashion, they build their own weapons and only asks for assistance on implementing acruements. They are far more dangerous that Iraq could ever have hoped to be.

[AverageJoe90]

4. That actually sounds accurate to me, at least Israel wise.