Israel - a possibility?

As per the recent developments on Iranian issue, it is getting very critical that we might see a zoomed in press report by President Bush himself on the regime change in Iran. It is already very obvious that US State Department is in difference with Iran developing their nuclear program. There is no doubt in that and we all know that US is capable of doing so “if Iran continues to pursue its controversial nuclear ambitions”.

Iran maintains that Iran isn’t another Iraq and the greedy superpower should think and calculate twice before bombing. Also, it is highly unlikely that US will be the only major power attacking Iran all by itself because of its involvement in Iraq and semi-involvement in Afghanistan. But regardless of other purposes, one thing for sure is that regime change in Iraq will become much easier if the current regime of Iran is replaced with something else other than the current one.

The question that arises now is that will Israel really strike Iran on behalf of US? As the story goes, an undisclosed number of F-15 bombers and F-16 fighters destroyed the Osirak reactor near Baghdad on the orders of Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel in 1981. Apparently, Iran had learned a lesson there and then and has securely protected, at least what’s claimed, the Natanz uranium-enrichment complex and the conversion plant in Esfahan.

Personally, I believe that there is more danger than not from Israel rather than US for Iran. An Israeli minister has already called for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations after President Ahmadinejad’s persistent calls for Israel to be “wiped off the map”.

“Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihiliation,”
Ahmadinejad said. “The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be
eliminated by one storm,” he said.

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Whatever maybe the final deal, it is surely a concern for US embassies, offices, trading companies, and schools around the world as they will fall under a major threat if US ever plans to attack. By studying the current governments’ stances with US, I also see some involvement from Oman, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and possibly Pakistan. I’m curious about Iran’s defense strategy for the possible attacks, if ever executed. We all know that “superpowers” love to spread peace in this world anyway so it isn't a far fetched fantasy that there will be some attacks. Just to set the records straight, I side myself against the preemptive strikes by the way :)