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Hint: We are not going to risk a confrontation with Russia over Iran.

Can you back that up? Or is it merely your opinion? Vital issues are at stake here. Israel is not willing to allow its own destruction. Before Obama I would have said we will not allow the destruction of Israel either....now, I just don't know.

It's an opinion; I will make it clearer next time when I am giving one.

Having said that, I thought I was stating the obvious. I think you would agree that there is insufficient support in the UN Security Council (where Russia and China hold veto power) to take very strong steps against Iran. We are in the position where we cannot antagonize our much-needed lenders (China, of course) and we cannot bully the one other country that is still outside of our influence (Russia). (It's not Iraq we're talking about here. We cannot simply go into Russia and smack people around as if it was.)

If there are Russians in Iran helping them with nuclear technology and if the Russian government is aware of their presence, any action taken against Iran could antagonize Russia.

If desperate, would Israel take such a step? Possibly. Would we? I don't believe it.