Iran vows to hit any country that stages attack

[Douglas Carpenter]

117. Iran has multiple sites protected by North Korean style deep earth bunkers - it is highly unlikely

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that air power can cripple their nuclear program. Israel simply does not have enough long range bombers and the kind of payloads to carry this out to a conclusion. America might have that ability, but it would require a sustained and very dangerous campaign. Even then given the somewhat archaic but nonetheless large number of entrenched defenses - the results would be doubtful and would be extremely costly. The enormous number of basic missiles and other military hardware possessed by Iran, there use of hundreds of hit and run speed boats and their basic missiles buried in hostile and unapproachable terrain will insure catastrophic consequences for any attack and the outcome will be doubtful and inconclusive at best. The economic cost caused by stratospheric oil prices will be enormous.