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This is a concern, but I very much doubt they have as the American's would be aware of it, and I don't think that the Russians are that stupid.

But at this stage, and with the way that Israel are going for the throats of their enemies, if Iran did have a nuke,then this is the period of them using it.

They probably would do so,even if that meant they would be wiped off the face of the earth by Israel.



I don't see Netanyahu stopping.

We live in interesting times.

I don't find the current issues "interesting" more frightening.
Is there any evidence that Iran possesses nuclear weapons? If they don't then it is a redundant argument. Other factors come into play. For example the relative populations. Iran's population is circa 90 million, Israel is around 9.5 million. That's a huge difference in human resource.
Iran'army has 600k+ active duty personnel and 300k+ reservists. Israel has 170k active and 470k reservists.
But the issue for Iran is that because of post 1979 embargoes their equipment is either very dated or home produced.
Plus the geography. The only way that Iran could directly attack Israel other than by missiles is movement of troops and equipment through Iraq into Syria. Can't see the Israelis letting that happen unscathed.

I don't know but it appears Israel has taken a scorched earth policy to HAMAS and GAZA generally, have cut off the head Hezbollah in Lebanon whilst hardly a scratch in Israel itself.
The Arab States have sat on their hands, even now and the noise out of Iran appears to be just rhetoric.
But they do have a large inventory, 3000 plus, of ballistic missiles.
They could launch a mass attack and quite possibly overwhelm Israel's "Iron Dome"
But they would face a massive retaliation from Israel which would most likely disable their economy and quite possibly see the leadership attacked in Tehran.

My bet is they will sit on their hands. I am praying (not literally) that they do

"Is there any evidence that Iran possesses nuclear weapons?" - There is a lot of evidence that they are very close to having nuclear weapons. I do believe that the Israelis are on top of things though, and as soon as Iran gets to that final stage, Israel will bomb whatever facilities they have to. Another worry is just what Iran has received in exchange for the weapons it has supplied to Russia? Would nuclear technology be part of that exchange? I'm willing to bet it is.

"Plus the geography. The only way that Iran could directly attack Israel other than by missiles is movement of troops and equipment through Iraq into Syria. Can't see the Israelis letting that happen unscathed." - Iran will not attack Israel directly with troops. They leave the hard work to others (Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthis/Syria etc), the puppets. Iran is just the puppet master.

"But they do have a large inventory, 3000 plus, of ballistic missiles." - That is just ballistic weapons. 

"My bet is they will sit on their hands." - No they won't. They are quite happy to see civilians being killed in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen etc if helps to promote their ideological and barbaric war on the Jewish people. They supply the weaponry to arm their useful idiots in the ME. 

There is a lot of evidence on building centrifuges, but precious little else.

As far as "sitting on their hands": Their allies and proxies are being systematically destroyed by Israel, and they have done nothing. My bet is they will do nothing, because the consequences if they came directly involved would be devastating for Iran, as a country.
The people of Iran don't want it, even if the loonies in their government, an oxymoron if ever there was one, have itchy fingers

Depends what their intentions are.
Do you think we should just look the other way, until Iran goes from not having a nuclear bomb, to having a nuclear bomb?

But which State has the right to determine another State's energy policy?
Which State has the right to impose a regime, one they favour, on another State?

It's started, I wonder if our contingency plans will now come into effect.

We've based ships, planes and troops nearby for an evacuation operation if needed.

Would have to coordinate with Isreal, US and Lebanon. Not easy.

If Iran is developing it`s nuclear capability, solely with the aim of providing energy for their people, then all well and good.
If their aims are more sinister, then Israel will know about it, and I suspect that anyone living near the nuclear sites will be receiving a letter from the IDF, suggesting that they might like to relocate to a different part of the country.
I agree absolutely with your second sentence, and I`m sure that we`d both like to see Iran withdraw all support for Hezbollah, and just forget about Israel.