Hurray peace at last!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I think Israel would be happy to drop a couple of nukes if it helped.

Positively itching to do so.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Problem with that is that many (probably most) Iranians hate the regime and would love to see it eliminated.
If someone nukes the place, those innocent people will be vapourised and the leaders may have arrangements for themselves where they have a reasonable chance of escaping it.

[STEMO]

I said it in jest, as probably the only way to ensure complete defeat. I don't expect Israel would actually consider it.
We really don't want to open that particular can of worms.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I expect that Iran would be much more likely to turn Israel to glass than the other way round if they had the capability anyway. 

[Doctor Gollum]

I expect that Iran would be much more likely to turn Israel to glass than the other way round if they had the capability anyway. 

They've certainly got the desire to do 

[TheBoy]

No one can actually use nuclear weapons. That is an unwritten rule.

You're arguing rational thoughts with irrational people.  Of course they would use it offensively.

[Sir Tigger KC]

No one can actually use nuclear weapons. That is an unwritten rule.

You're arguing rational thoughts with irrational people.  Of course they would use it offensively.

We saw in January how little the Ayatollahs/IRGC value lives when they massacred thousands of their own citizens....   

[Doctor Gollum]

Those subsequent posts are all well and good. No doubt a bit of lefties bashing cheered them up but it still hasn't answered the question.

The nearest we got was flatten the place. Power plants and bridges might work. There have been enough wars for people to realise that the nation keeps on going through it all.

The nation isn't the regime and vice versa.

Iran will recover and be a happier place for it.

You'll of course turn round say that didn't work out so well for Afghanistan, but that's because we tried to deal with the Taliban on modern terms and not with their medieval mindset. Not helped by the fact that we didn't actually help the majority of Afghans in the ways they actually needed, ie given them the structure to support and stand up for themselves.

If you take the fight to these regimes, the people you're striving to help need to be prepared to die for it, and we need to be prepared to die helping them.

That's what the left finds so unpalatable, and why the left don't understand right wing conservative patriotism.

The world can be a fair and just place, but you have to sacrifice to make it so. Being a woke leftist is a convenience, not a sacrifice.