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Which begs the question is it work waiting until they fall from the inside?
Israel won't wait.
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Israel will wait if it's in their strategic interest to.
Beyond that, the window to strike their nuclear facilities has probably closed. As it's now widely thought that there are secret facilities in operation. Unless Israel could within a high confidence interval successfully destroy all refining facilities, a strike would be against their interests as they would not snuff out the nuclear program and would stoke condemnation across the region.
A better question would be how likely would a nuclear attack on Israel be under the following scenarios: 1) Iran obtains nuclear bomb with no strike from Israel and is still seen as an international paraiah or 2) Iran obtains nuclear with a strike from Israel and is now vindicated.
The other key issue in the equation is the shape of Iran moving forward. Is Iran moving to be more militant in the future or less? It's a good question. Urban areas of Iran have seen broad liberalizing social change about as fast as it can happen in the past 25 years. Will that continue? A less religious Iran is a much more friendly Iran.