Back in the days of the Cold War, the doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction” was purported to have kept both sides from launching a nuclear attack on the other. But the problem with the “Islamic Bomb” is that those who will wish to launch it will not be given pause by the prospect of their own destruction: they will be martyrs for Allah, enjoying the sensual bounties of Paradise. From Al-Bawaba, :
Intelligence Chief Major-General Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash said the Iranian-backed resistance movement had a few dozen rockets “apparently” with a range of 115 kilometers and perhaps as great as 200 kilometers….
Farkash’s comments were published as a spokesman for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying the Islamic Republic will wipe Israel “off the face of the earth” if it dared to attack the its nuclear facilities.
“The United States is showing off by threatening to use its wild dog, Israel,” the public relations head of the Revolutionary Guards, Commander Seyed Masood Jazayeri, was quoted as saying by the Iranian student news agency ISNA.
“They will not hesitate to strike Iran if they are capable of it. However, their threats to attack Irans nuclear facilities cannot be realised. They are aware Tehran’s reaction will be so harsh that Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth and US interests will be easily damaged,” he warned.