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...Tehran refuses to budge, the U.S. says it will push for sanctions. If those fail, Washington is keeping open the option of a military strike. Security sources tell TIME that soon after taking office, Obama urged the Pentagon to come up with a military plan to take out Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, just in case. No doubt this pleases the Israeli Premier. As Israeli newspaper columnist Nahum Barnea wrote recently, "For Netanyahu, preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is everything." (Read about world leaders' view of Obama's election...
...nuclear installations by itself, regardless of the shock waves that would send through the world. A poll by Bar-Ilan University showed that 66% of Israelis support a military strike against Iran if all other efforts fail. Netanyahu himself draws parallels between the Holocaust and the specter of an Iranian bomb aimed at Tel Aviv...
...meantime, Israel is upping the ante. In the lead-up to Netanyahu's Washington visit, Israeli newspapers have printed stories about the air force carrying out dry runs for an Iranian raid and antimissile crews having practice drills. If nothing else, this drum-banging may help Obama bring pressure to bear on Iran. Will Israelis then stop worrying? Nope. If you lived where they do, you'd worry...
...Iranian regime is capable of sustaining massive U.S. reprisal attacks without falling. In 1991 Saddam's army suffered a catastrophic defeat with the backbone of its army and air force destroyed and the loss of much of the southern part of the country to Shi'ite insurgents, but Saddam held on and remained in power. The Iranian regime believes it can weather the same degree of losses, especially as it has adequately prepared its populace for "martyrdom." As a result, it believes it is able to withstand much greater human and material losses than...
...Bastani is a member of the editorial board of the Iranian daily Rooz Online...