JQP seems always to forget that Iran is about as big as all of Western Europe, has ample mountainous terrain in which you could hide all of Ford's old River Rouge plant underground, and no matter how effective a first, or first 25 weeks of strikes might be, it would not take a whole lot of nuclear missile power (maybe 3) to turn Israel's major towns into toast. Israel being the size of CT means that even if you were trying to take out Hartford and missed, New Haven is gone.
Although I would personally love to put a 2,000-lb JDAM down the Imam's Holy Well, ain't nobody bombin' nobody. What's "Plan B?"
That Saudi co-op scenario is about as realistic as the Pope marrying Lindsay Lohan.
This is supposedly what Israel’s Iron Dome (kinetic anti-missile missiles) is about. Thinning Iran’s capability enough makes it plausible that Iron Dome would take care of the rest — and I could hardly blame, say, Saudi Arabia if they wanted to create their own Iron Dome.