Does Iran Seriously Think They Will Be Allowed To Build A Nuclear Weapon?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55111064
I don't know for sure this was Israel but as Iran has pledged to "wipe Israel off the map" we and they should not be surprised if Israel acts.

[vulcan42]

gulliver, if there was a nuclear war there would be nobody left to remember anybody.

[teacake44]

Trump wouldn't have thought of that. :0)^^^

[douglas9401]

He's not mad, he's just a sulky, surly, bullying idiot who never got the slap that might have set him straight.

Please save any "yeah but he's a billionaire so he can't be an idiot" guff for another time.

Many thanks.

[teacake44]

There's still time for that slap, if he's not careful.^^ and a big one!!

[sandyRoe]

He's a billionaire because he inherited a great fortune from his father. I'd bet he hasn't as much now as he did when he took over the reins of his father's property empire.
A man who ran a number of businesses into bankruptcy, including a casino, is hardly a candidate for a Businessman of the year award.

[teacake44]

^^ A fool, and their money are soon parted. :0)

[ToraToraTora]

jno, dinnerjacket said it in 2005
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/world/africa/wipe-israel-off-the-map-iranian-says.html

[royfromaus]

It is all about translation TTT.

The translation commonly used is wrong.

[royfromaus]

"the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time''

versus

"wipe Israel off the map"

[ToraToraTora]

they sound pretty equivalent to me.

[david small]

Iran has weapons of mass destruction. Now where have we heard that before? Most wars start because of ignorance, and stupidity. Ideological, or religious beliefs follow along smartly. We apes have way too much monkey in our genes to play nicely with each other.

[fiveleaves]

I have thought for years that Israel has to sort out the Iranian nuclear threat. America has helped with the cyber attacks on the centrifuges and the "accidental fires" at some of the facilities. Go on Israel bomb the nuclear plants

[Peter Pedant]

I think Iran are doing it secretly and so no one knows
( where or who ) etc

I woudda thought those who are doing it are guarded securely
but nope - they seem to be shot with er monotonous regularity

[Peter Pedant]

yeah the stux attack was pretty good
software to run the centrifuges too high so that the bearings give
and record on the boop-boop screens that they are running at normal rates

the stux vector was then used to deliver some pretty poss-poor financial ransomware.