'Da Question, to be or not to be', Would Iran’s Mullahs Use the Bomb?

[Busy]

Article from FamilySecurityMatters.org http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=635152

Would Iran’s Mullahs Use the Bomb?
Amil Imani
Author: Amil Imani
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc
Date: January 24, 2007



Dismissing the potential for Iran’s regime to be willing to use the bomb is both foolish and suicidal. FSM Contributing Editor Amil Imani explains why...

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American citizen and pro-democracy activist residing in the United States of America. He maintains a website at http://amilimani.com.

If you ask me?
I hope not, but you can't trust fanatics!

 

[Prince_James]

The dirty bomb analysis is completely and utterly wrong.

Dirty bombs cannot make "a city uninhabitable".

They can make maybe a few hundred yards uninhabitable for about 5 days. The isotopes used are not radioactive for long. Moreover, clean up operations could easily take care of it even if they had to.

 

[Busy]

PJ, Doesn't it depend on the size of the dirty bomb?

 

[spidergoat]

* Will never dare to use the bomb, even if they had it. To do so would be suicidal.

Correct.

* Are years away from anything resembling a credible bomb, in any quantities.

Correct.

* Lack the technological skills needed to make a workable bomb.

Unknown. They might have the skills.

* Don’t have the means of hitting Israel with the bomb, their professed favorite target.

Israel isn't that far away.

* Want the bomb for defensive purposes only.

There is no other purpose.

* Would never hand the bomb over to proxy terrorists.

Probably not.

* Are using this whole bomb thing as a ploy to rally the populace and survive.

Correct.

* Are visionary patriots planning for a future when the oil dries up.

Probably not.

* Are environmentalists aiming to curb global warming caused by the use of fossil fuel.

Probably not.

* Are striving to join the nuclear club for its prestige.

Correct.

 

[w1z4rd]

I think the chances of a Iran using a nuking Israel are 50/50

 

[Oniw17]

They won't do it. I'm positive.