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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (152173)	11/20/2004 8:45:06 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

When you ask the Israeli's, Rafsanjani is getting ready to deploy the bomb and anihilate Israel. I'm not sure I've ever read that he said it would be "worth the cost". iran-press-service.com Peres quoted Hashemi-Rafsanjani as saying that "when the Islamic world acquires atomic weapons, the strategy of the West will hit a dead-end -- since the use of a single atomic bomb has the power to destroy Israel completely, while it will only cause partial damage to the Islamic world." Actually, Mr. Hashemi-Rafsanjani had told worshippers, while leading the traditional Friday prayers, "If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce minor damages in the Muslim world", referring to Atomic bombs Israel is believed to have more than 200 of them. Meanwhile, and I know the hate and fear crowd simply won't understand this, but when one side raises the stakes, the other will quite understandably respond in kind. The US and Israel, and Iran of course, are raising the stakes day by day. newsmax.com TEHRAN, Iran - Accompanied by a warning that its missiles have the range, Iran on Tuesday said it would destroy Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor if the Jewish state were to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. Report: Israel May Destroy Iran's Nukes newsmax.com TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel, alarmed by the failure of international community to move against Iran's nuclear weapons program, may do so on its own, says a report. tau.ac.il Senior officials representing Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs last month privately confided to selected foreign government counterparts that, if the Islamic Republic of Iran completes gas centrifuge facilities at Natanz and begins enriching uranium there, Israel will embark on a military operation to destroy it, according to highly reliable European government sources. The government of Israel declined to respond to formal requests from Nucleonics Week to discuss its response to confirmation by the IAEA of the Natanz facility and Iran's long-undeclared experimental uranium processing program. rense.com Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has already sent Israel's three Dolphin-class nuclear submarines to the Gulf of Oman within striking distance of Iran. German built, each has recently been fitted with the latest US Navy "over the horizon" software. Called Promis, it allows the submarines to destroy with pinpoint accuracy targets in Iran up to 900 miles away. These include nuclear plants at Natanz and Arak, sited in the remote fastness of Central Iran. A third plant is at Arkadan, near the historic city of Isfahan. etc. We haven't seen this type of brinksmanship in a long time. Iraq was a picnic in comparison. I'm digging in my cellar after dinner.