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If Iran got close to creating a Nuke wouldn't the US just bomb the site? Iran must surely know that it will not get away with building nukes either. So what are
by pygar 5y ago
If Iran got close to creating a Nuke wouldn't the US just bomb the site? Iran must surely know that it will not get away with building nukes either. So what are they doing?
Iran's bark is larger then it's bite. I think it just wants to use its nuclear activities as a bargaining chip for sanction relief.
So why should the US do anything at all regarding Iran? It can destroy those sites easily enough if it needs to.
Why doesn't it just refuse to negotiate and keep Iran poor?
Iran's military threat are, relatively, a mild annoyance, and calling their bluff and immediately escalating as trump did when he killed Soleimani seems to temper them as any escalation hurts them a lot more then it does the US.
I think when we treat Iran as a real threat, as we did with NK, it just gives them more legitimacy then they deserve.
- Paddywack 5y ago> It can destroy those sites easily enough if it needs to. Is it as simple as that? (1) There is a continuum from dirty bombs to full Nukes that makes it a bit more messy. (2) Are Nukes not more "hideable" than this? For example, why has NK not had theirs bombed?
- baybal2 5y ago> For example, why has NK not had theirs bombed? Because of a country up north.
- yongjik 5y ago> > For example, why has NK not had theirs bombed? > Because of a country up north. ...and another country down south as well. There are fifty million citizens of a country officially allied with America who would appreciate not having a nuclear war next door, thank you very much.
- pygar 5y agoThe size of the sites they need to make the nukes are not small. It's more a matter of Intellegence knowing whats going on there. The issue with NK, to my understading, is that any action there would lead to SK ( A densely populated country) being attacked with a lot regular missiles that would be hard to prevent.
- baybal2 5y agoI'm pretty sure US will do nothing if Iran will come up with a nuke, nor will it change anything in the region at large. Pre-Syrian-war balance of power was such that any neighbouring power had material resources to flatten Israel few times over, with, or without nuclear weapons, sans the small detail of their military leadership being a complete joke.
- roca 5y ago> wouldn't the US just bomb the site? Iran's critical sites are well bunkerized. It's not clear that any non-nuclear attack would get through.