Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Israel's deterrent is only good as long as Iran does not have a nuke.
Why should that be the case? The point of deterrence is not to make it impossible for anyone to attack you, the point is to raise the cost of an attack far beyond any possible benefit. Since there would be no benefit at all to Iran from attacking Israel and the cost would (given Israel's presumed capacity for nuclear retaliation) be extremely high, the prospect of an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel seems pretty low.

Iran's leaders seem perfectly willing to promote suicide among others, but there's no evidence to suggest that they are willing to embrace it themselves.

I've noticed more than once that when people want something accomplished by any means and at any cost, they generally propose to employ someone else's means and they generally expect someone else to cover the cost.