Yet, Iranian officials publicly have been threatening to turn Israel to ashes while a Lebanese parliamentary member of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah recently conceded that Iran is embarked on developing a nuclear weapon when he said that it would be used for Israel’s destruction.
Such rhetoric, according to Lignet, has only heightened Tel Aviv’s anxiety level to seriously consider such an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran, however, has been taunting Israel in recent days, believing that Israel’s military capabilities would be greatly stretched to undertake a successful attack, and then it would set back Iran’s program perhaps by a few months.
Israel also will have to weigh that against what the impact of such an attack will have on the country’s reputation in the international community, and the potential repercussions of a counterattack by Iran which has threatened to “swarm” Israel with missiles aimed at its population centers.
- 1913 Intel
